If Turkey promised to eliminate the ISIS prisoners with extreme prejudice so be it. Why are there ISIS prisoners. They are serial killing fiends incompatible with peace. Destroy them, families included. Send message to Muslims interested in a caliphate.
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You dont get it. Erdogan intends to ethnically cleanse the area of Kurds and replace them with Sunni Muslim Islamists. Take THAT to the bank.
A question: weren’t the Saudis supposed to support the Kurds?
Did Trump assume that the three parties involved (Turks, Syrians and Kurds) would counter balance to the threat each posed upon the other. If that was his expectation I fear it’s a serious misstep.
I hope I’m not seeing a larger picture.
The Kurds themselves are Sunnis...well, those that are not radical Communists (the PKK). They are not from Syria but took over this area to use as a base, and one of the reasons there are so many Syrian migrants is that they were fleeing the Kurds and the resulting destabilization that enabled ISIS to take over. Syrians constitute the largest group of people arriving illegally in Europe.
The Kurds receive lots of money and arms from us, and will continue to do so, but this territorial dispute and establishment of a Kurdish territory in Syria is not something our troops should be involved in. We cleared out ISIS and now its up to them to work it out with Turkey and Syria.
Possibly so but they will still be in the minority
If Erdie commits genocide, there are ways to deal with him, Turkey, and NATO, that don’t involve military intervention.
All parties are aware of this.
Since all parties are aware of this, then you have to ask why this is occurring. The answer is that this isn’t about the Kurds. The Kurds are just collateral damage in the war to take out Trump.
We need to get the hell out of NATO.