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The reality is not the minor deal you make of it.

You would understand how major this change is if you saw it on maps that showed what Erdogan’s “safe zone” will look like, and the destructive impact it will have on the relatively peaceful territory the Kurds put together in Syria, protecting not only themselves but the non-Kurdish Syrians in that area as well.

A twenty mile “pull back” across a large territory only seems small by ignoring most of the major towns in that large area lie within that twenty mile zone, and all are towns the Kurds removed ISIS from; and all are towns Erdogan wants to REMOVE the Kurds from. In other words Erdogan wants to push the Kurds out of the areas major settlements into the no man’s land that is most of the territory.

OK, you are catching up. It has been Turkeys goal to have this buffer zone for the last 60 years that I know of. There have been dozens of armed exchanges back and forth over this area between the turks and kurds over the years.

I’m not ignoring any of this, I have literally walked that ground.

You are acting like this is something new and huge, no it is not. This is just the same shit different year.

Over the decades the Kurds have conducted terrorist attacks inside of Turkey over this struggle.

I like the kurds, they treated me well, I do not like the Truks, they treated me like crap, BUT, we, the US military, are not going to make any difference in this struggle. It has been going on for decades and I do not see it ever going away.

We can not win in this situation, period. If we went to war with Turkey and won, we have won nothing but a big pile of worthless crap that we do not want. The cost of winning this huge pile of crap would be billions of dollars and many thousands of US lives.