[Texas Fossil]

The Author is from Turkey. She is married to Joseph S. Pennington, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq. She told me that she resides in Washington DC.

It is very hard for me to believe what the article says is true. If it is, it is because Secretary of Defense Mattis was ordered to do so. I was told by one of my sources that CentCom personnel have stated it is true, but not officially.

If it is true, it is a serious mistake. We have an incredibly good relationship with the Syrian Kurd lead SDF. Such a betrayal will be devastating to the War on Terror.

I normally post al Monitor articles in total. In this case I excerpted it. The author is based in the US and I don't personally know her or have her permission to do so.

[Texas Fossil]

Syria/Turkey Ping

[dfwgator]

Not good.

Erdogan is the modern-day Hitler of Europe.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Big mistake, but not unexpected.

This is the man who wanted to hire Anne Patterson, who implemented Obama’s Egypt policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood.

[TBP]

Erdogan is an Islamist, jihadist. The Kurds are our allies.

[momincombatboots]

Translation.. erdogone is #gettingPaid.. and Mattie is thumbs up. If true.

[antidisestablishment]

Erdogan is a literal fascist and an Islamic extremist to boot. The deep state owns the entire region and nothing but the marketing has changed.

The only reason Turkey is in Syria is to fight the Kurds. Their very first action was to bomb YPG units in Iraq and claim it was PKK. Our alliance with the Kurds has always been one of convenience. As I said on another post, the CIA will eventually teach the Kurds not to trust us. Trump has far too much faith in generals who are committed to a failed course.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Turkey should be cut in pieces:
- west of the Bosphorus to Greece
- the northeast to Armenia
- the southeast to a new independent Kurdish state (along with a hefty hunk of northwestern Iran)

Just leave a little rump state to Islamofacist Erogan.

[shalom aleichem]

Question the source of this bad news

[Wuli]

Let me see; Erdogan boosts military cooperation with Iran, and a mere week later the traitorous, globalist, deep state Mattis pledges to support Erdogan against the Kurds.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-military-idUSKCN1AX1AK

WAKE UP TRUMP - Mattis is really on someone else’s team, not ours. WE did not elect you to have guys like him in charge.