Turkish Jets Bomb Iranian Militias Heading to Afrin

Here’s what the Times said today:

. . . pro-government forces in the north of the country advanced toward the Kurdish enclave Afrin.

Those forces were trying to join Kurdish militias defending Afrin from Turkish troops who [had] crossed the border and were advancing from the north. They retreated after Turkish jets and artillery bombarded them,the Turkish government said.

So that and what the Turkish government said about them being “Shia militiamen acting independently” partly clears it up, but it is still so muddled over there, it seems, that the different sides can’t keep themselves straight. If they really were acting independently, OK, but we know Iran is hiring Shia mercenaries, and Iran is supposed to be on the same side as Turkey and against the regime and Kurds. And why were pro-government forces going to help the Kurds? Isn’t the Syrian government on the same side as Iran and Turkey?

Guys, we have enough trouble following this whole thing. Please check the color of your T-shirt and be sure which side you’re on at every moment.

The Kurds asked for help against the Turks. Assad ignored that, and his allies attempted to seize the Kurdish oil fields (the ones they still had -- iraq/Iran seized the others a couple months ago). Assad suddenly decides to help, but the media team his allies are using are from Hezbollah, iow, from the same pool of terrorist talent as before -- but Assad considers this a Turkish attack on Syrian sovereignty (which is a joke after nearly eight years of 20 different nationalities running wild all over and half his remaining armed forces dead). The end game will be the Turks and Syrians toasting each other out of the bronzed skulls of slain Kurds.

In merry olde England, jousting matches were held every year on the King`s palace grounds.
Each of the opposite sides had a squire assigned to each jousting knight. The King had his own two personal squires.
On one particular occasion, a knight on each opposite side each had a squire with a son.
The sons of the two squires of the two sides were equal to the squires of the High Potentate.

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