“Iranian”? Does that mean “Kurdish”?
Are we on the side of the Kurds and against the Turks,
or with the “democratic” Arabs and the Kurds, and against
Assad?
Or have all parties united to oppose the Turks (hence, we are temporarily on the same side as the Russians)?
Hello?
Do Tillerson and Co. know what they are doing?
Stirring up the pot, getting everyone pissed off and fighting each other.
Think that’s been the plan for a while. Just a lot of dead people. Eventually, they’ll run out of crazy?
Then I saw something over the weekend that I realized I had not even been considering for nearly my entire life, running through Vietnam, the Cold War, and up to today. The saying I saw was:
"You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to."
I know is is something of a knee-jerk reaction. I have always just had to chose a side. I now see this propensity as a personal flaw, particularly with international relations, hot spots, etc. I have always felt that at any given time in any given place, I had to have a side chosen in the event we jump into it. I felt like I had to be prepared.
My first inkling that I had a vacuum in this area should have occurred to me (and to a degree it did) during the Iran-Iraq war. It is one of the reasons I supported the Reagan administration in supplying arms and support to the Iraqis to foster this internecine conflict that was going to sap both sides.
Basically, siding with both or siding with neither can produce the same effect, and I never saw that as an outright option. Never considered it.
But given what we see going on now, I realize that is the best option...don't even pick a side. Either let them slug it out on their own, or provide arms and encouragement to both sides in order to weaken them. They don't like us. They all want our destruction. It just made sense to me.