Posted on 12/25/2018 1:52:00 AM PST by familyop
ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite an imminent US withdrawal. Washington's decision to pull out 2,000 of his ground forces from Syria has stunned most allies including France but was greeted with approval by Turkey, which will now have a freer rein to target Kurdish fighters from the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG)...Critics say thousands of Daesh members are still in Syria and could pose a threat with some analysts concerned the withdrawal could lead to a resurgence of Daesh.
There’s more behind the link, by the way. That one should have auto-excerpted and didn’t.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1111944/posts
That's one narrative.
Here’s a better link. The article won’t scroll off of the page at this site.
Turkey warns France ‘no benefit’ in protecting Kurd militia
(The Local)
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181225/turkey-warns-france-no-benefit-in-protecting-kurd-militia
If the game is to create a Kurd-state out of the northern quarter of Syria...then you’d have to admit to nation-building and that’s not the job of the US (or for that matter France). Once ISIS was put down as a threat, the US should pack up and leave.
Turkey warns France it could become ‘target’ over backing of Syria Kurds
DECEMBER 25, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-euphrates/turkey-determined-to-cross-east-of-euphrates-as-soon-as-possible-hurriyet-cites-foreign-minister-idUSKCN1OO094
Jeff Chandler wouldn’t surrender. Thought U died.
The invasion from the south is overwhelming local resources. 100s of thousands of County money is spent burying and locating family members of DEAD invaders.
They need to put some dog tags on with next of kin contact.
“...(YPG)...Critics say thousands of Daesh members are still in Syria and could pose a threat with some analysts concerned the withdrawal could lead to a resurgence of Daesh....”
How many franicesses will be blamed?
From August.
Relations between Turkey, Russia deepening, Putin says after meeting with top Turkish officials
https://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/2018/08/24/relations-between-turkey-russia-deepening-putin-says-after-meeting-with-top-turkish-officials
More links in the thread here.
President Erdogan has invited Trump to visit Turkey in 2019: White House
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3715196/posts
It would be in much better interests of the Saudis to protect the Kurds, and supply them with the necessary support. The Kurds are targets of Turkey, Daesh, and the Iranians, and for that matter, the Russians, but for a much less degree of engagement.
Carving out a stable state of Kurdistan, composed of ethnic Kurds, from the territories of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and including a corner of Azerbaijan, a former province of the old Soviet Union, would do much to stabilize a buffer state with highly motivated and fiercely independent population. True, most of the Kurds are Muslim, but they feel little brotherhood with either the Alawites of Syria or the Shi’a of Iran.
The Peshmerga is one of the best of guerrilla armies in the world, and organized on a national basis, they could be a potent force for throttling the ambitions of either the Iranians or Turkey.
There is no benefit toTurkey, that’s why Turkey is opposed.
Read the recent Greenfield take on it...Trump is being anything but a “surrender monkey”...
Sorry for the rant on Christmas but after spending two years of my youth chasing gooks all over S.E. Asia it makes me sick to my stomach to see what our military has devolved into and we're still 0-5 since WW2.
Yes,I am a Marine and can and do get on "Mouthy" Mathis loud and often.He's a punk with a ghostwriter.
Who even knew the French were operating in Syria before last week?
I’ll wager they’re gone before the end of January.
The nation building continues in ajacent former Iraq
France is amending it’s error in 1918 dismantling the Ottoman empire
“It’s our turn to be surrender monkeys.”
It’s hard to be a ‘surrender monkey’ when you still haven’t been told what you’re fighting for.
“If the game is to create a Kurd-state out of the northern quarter of Syria...then you’d have to admit to nation-building and that’s not the job of the US (or for that matter France)”
Another question to ask might be what gives us (or France), or anyone else the legal right to dismember Syria...
...not that we could anyway, with Turkey, Iraq, and Iran not about to let the Kurds get their state.
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