Posted on 10/04/2014 10:56:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kobani has become the Kurds’ Alamo as they fight ISIS in Syria. Nobody’s coming to help them, and if and when they fall, the repercussions will be felt for years to come.
ATMANEK, Turkey — At dusk on Friday evening the crackle of automatic gunfire, the whoosh of rockets and the sickening roar of tank shells echoed from the fighting in Kobani, Syria, less than a mile away. We stood on the rooftop of a derelict farmhouse meters away from a Turkish tank and a razor wire fence marking the end of Turkey.
Nearby a family of Turkish Kurds busied themselves in their fields piling vegetables onto a donkey-drawn cart. Look the other way though, towards Syria as the sun melted in a red glow under the horizon, and the occasional rocket and flare flashed across the skyline.
Another day in a desperate fight was ending in the Kurds’ Alamo. And as with the 13-day last stand of the Texans James Bowie and William B. Travis there was no relief in sight.
In the morning Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists in a briefing in Ankara that his government would do what it could to prevent the mainly Kurdish town of Kobani, known as Ain al-Arab to the Arabs, from falling to the militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS).
“We wouldn’t want Kobani to fall,” he said.
It is hard to tell though.
Despite the Turkish parliament giving the government powers to order cross-border military incursions into Syria, there were no signs yesterday of any Turkish military buildup. Along the border every quarter of a mile or so there was a tank or armored vehicle parked with turrets pointing towards Kobani, but they didn’t thunder.
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So after all these decades, it’s still the same old airstrikes. Kind of always starting a fight with a right hook, people eventually adapt and screw you over by knowing the first punch to expect.
Meanwhile, back at the DC Metropolitan area golf courses .... our valiant young president continues his rounds which remain far from par. Far from par in so many areas is he.
God be with the Kurds.
As for ISIS, Erdogan is letting them do the dirty work of carving out territory for the caliphate. Turkey plans to co-opt whatever gains they make and re-establish the Ottoman hegemony. They have long since abandoned Kemalism and cast their lot with Islamism.
They have accepted that they will never be part of the EU, nor will they ever again honor their NATO membership. Obama has pretty well queered that deal once and for all. And from the Turks point of view, why should they care about joining the moribund West at this point.
One thing is for sure — NATO cannot depend on Turkey when it comes to fighting Muslims.
Islam is thicker than loyalty.
I am sure the Golf course is the kind of obstacle course our liberals love to vaunt the exploit of their hero messiah.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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