Saturday, October 19, 2019

WTF is going on in Syria?

the latest excuse for removing Trumpieboy (and destroying the constitution) is the war in Syria: Letting Turkey get rid of the Kurdish terrorist group threatening their border.

Lots of political smoke and mirrors being done in the MSM: so many that Dilbert cynically notes the stories of bombed hospitals and dead children have been posted right on schedule. LINK

Has the American press had any articles written from Turkey's point of view?

The PhilInquirer has an editorial explaining Turkey's point of view.

they point out that they are fighting the PKK terrorist groups, not the Kurds per se: and that what they are trying to do here is similar to what they have done in the recent past, with little help or encouragement from their critics: pacify an area and resettle refugees in the now safe area.

Turkey has established a reliable pattern in the last three years. Turkey’s operations in northwestern Syria—in 2016-7 in and around Jarabulus and 2018 in Afrin—cleared a vast area of the terrorist presence. In the aftermath of those operations, the communities that suffered under the terrorists started living in peace and benefiting from orderly governance. Some 365,000 refugees returned to their home in northwestern Syria. 
and the writer is especially cynical against the Europeans who haven't been doing any fighting and who are refusing to help fight and even refusing to repatriate their terrorist fighters.

StrategyPage has a long analysis that sort of points out what Turkey is doing. Turkey is trying to resettle 3 million (Sunni/anti Assad) refugees in the border zone, a group that potentially threatens Assad, and to make things worse, no one likes the Turks, because they remember the Ottoman Empire.

So it's sort of complicated: read the whole thing.

but that won't stop the press from spinning the story to try to destroy Trumpieboy.

And only Rush Limbaugh noted that the most enthusiastic applause for Trump at his last rally was when he said he'd bring the troops home.

Hmmm... didn't President Obama try that too? And things erupted into chaos.

on the other hand, these folks have been fighting each other for 5000 years, so one doubts the US is going to pacify the area.

Tutmosis call your office: Those Syrians are at it again.

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