Posted on 03/31/2018 8:54:04 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The NATO Western military alliance risked going to war with itself as Turkey butts heads with the U.S. and France over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plan to battle Kurdish groups backed by Washington but considered terrorist organizations by Ankara.
Erdogan rejected on Friday a French offer to enter into talks with Syrian Kurdish fighters associated with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a fundamental part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). After the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces made heavy gains against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) across northern and eastern Syria last year, Turkey rallied its own armed forces in January in an attempt to defeat Kurdish fighters in both Syria and Iraq.
"We do not need a mediator," Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara. "We are extremely saddened by France's entirely wrong stance on this."
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Should we send 10,000 US Soldiers to each side of the NATO dispute, ...
or maybe send them to the US Borders and send the Corps of Engineers to Build the Wall?
So the US is powerless to protect the Kurds in Syria?
Sam Cohen knew what to do in cases like this!
see Neutron Bomb
I don’t see an American national interest/security angle in that conflict.
Unless we get out of the way so Assad and his allies can fight the Turks or we ally with Syria and help them. That gets tricky because Turkey and the US are NATO allies. Another issue is there are fighters we trained, financed, and supported against Assad who ARE the bad guys.
We have no business in Syria, never did. They're an independent nation. There used to be a pretense our soldiers and contractors weren't there, that we we helping citizen rebels. Our leaders aren't even pretending that's so anymore.
Mexico is America’s ally, just like Turkey.
#6....perfect!
Turkey out of NATO, New Kurdistan in. Problem solved.
There’s an “alliance” in Syria?
All I see is a highly destructive, proxy civil war with 15 different groups all fighting for their own bit of turf.
Turkey is a difficult problem with our bases there.
Turkey may be involved in the IED at Manbij.
They want us out of Syria and away from the Kurds.
American money and blood is not limitless and when American soldiers die, they stay dead. We have no obligation to protect the Kurds.
Right, ... I forgot.
The terror of accidentally leaving a few Christian females un-raped.
We have no business in turkey either. Turkey has no business in NATO either.
Assuming the last President’s foreign policy disaster expecting different results is insane. Letting Turkey into NATO is also insane.
It's a mess that we've been discussing for years now on FR. Our alliance with the Kurds had to run amuck with Turkey. Turkey in NATO doesn't even make geographic sense. Our freedom fighters are their terrorists. Of course, the Kurds should have a nation. But will they be satisfied if it's only carved out of Iraq? Can we or even should we give part of Syria to someone else?
The only logical outcome here would be the Kurds and Syria unite against Turkey and ISIS-type saboteurs. Anyone looking at the map will realize Syria needs a strong leader who protects Christians and other minorities, or ISIS remnants and Turkey have a corridor to the Med. That would be very bad for Egypt, Greece, Italy, and those Eastern European countries that used to be part of Yugoslavia.
I hope that God's still on our side. One has to wonder why.
Our problems with turkey are not going to improve. I have been apart of that conversation for years here too. Very little mention in the news over the last couple of years on turkey’s harassment and hostility towards our bases there. Time to remove us and them.
My own interpretation of Trump’s latest statements vis-a-vis Syria is that, to my great and grave disappointment, I believe he is going to abandon the Kurds, while continuing to waste our treasure and lives in Afghanistan, when, in my view, it should be the other way around. Before too long the Kurds will be caught between the terrorist Turks and a resurgent ISIS. It may change may vote in 2020.
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