Posted on 03/27/2018 12:09:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
It is a terrible thing to be a people without a state or province to call its own. Just ask the Kurds, who now find themselves under the hell of Turkey's ruthless ruler, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who may as well be one of the Turkish sultans of the past.
For he has unleashed a campaign of genocidal fury against people of his ever-expanding realm. And no one can say the world hasn't been given fair warning of his genocidal intentions. At latest report, his troops and some Syrian puppets under his control were driving farther and farther east, planning to cross the Euphrates, occupying one Kurdish town and village after another. And not just old borders, but the old Kurdish names of cities are to be wiped off the map to oblige the all-conquering aggressor.
All around the Turkish border with what should be an independent Kurdistan, Ankara's ruler is establishing his own arbitrary rule and calling it peace. "We'll continue this process," he declares, "until we completely abolish this corridor," which has been labeled a "terror corridor" because the Kurds won't bow to his dictates.
And there's no telling where he and his minions might strike next. "One night," he warns, "we could suddenly enter Sinjar," or go as far as Qamishli -- even though that's currently Syrian territory. In the Middle East, nothing may prove as fluid as borders.
But you can't keep good people like the Kurds down indefinitely. By now they've been reduced to fighting a guerrilla war against the Turks, waging hit-and-run attacks against the Turkish legions. The organization dedicated to reporting the human toll of all this warfare -- the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -- says more than 280 civilians and 1,500 Kurdish freedom fighters have died in the latest exchange of attacks, along with all the other symptoms of anarchy that devour nations left to the not-so-tender mercies of waging perpetual war in the name of establishing perpetual peace.
What the Turkish ruler calls peace, however, bears more than a little resemblance to utter devastation. Both residents of the Kurdish city and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights report the usual looting and wanton destruction that dominate war-torn cities. The news coverage shows burnt-out shops and invaders both uniformed and civilian carting away household goods from Kurdish homes. Others drive away with stolen tractors and farm supplies.
A commander of the Turkish-supported Syrian forces blames the looting on thieves and says a special unit to protect property has been formed to prevent further robberies. But who's to prevent this special police force from taking its own share of the loot? Thieves come in so many guises and disguises, including those donned by oh-so-officials.
And so it goes when law and order collapse. And an old and loyal ally is betrayed once again. God have mercy on the Kurds, for it is clear the Turks will show none.
Who the hell cares? They’re muslims, right? Let them kill each other.
Syrian Kurds aren’t all that Muslim.
Yes, I know them. Secular for real. Some Muslim, but no fanatics, no jihadi’s.
Some Christians, some Atheists, Some uncertain.
Totally understandable with the situation they came from.
It is unlike Kurds in Iraq, Iran and Kurds in Turkey.
All I’ve come to know over time, I really like. They are good people. Who deserver better.
Look at the map of distribution of Kurdish people
If Erdogan agreed to the formation of an Iraqi-Syria Kurdistan, then it is inevitable that it will eventually contain the Kurds in Turkey. if THAT happens, Erdogan immediately loses the south-eastern third of his country
IF he did this, then his support among Turks would dry up and he'd be booted out immediately
Not possible while Turkey is a member of NATO.
however to note, since then the Kurds have expressed sincere remorse and apologized and called it a genocide and begged forgiveness (and I believe Armenia accepted the apology)
“realpolitik” (is a Henry Kissinger phrase, he didn't invent it, but applied it)
I loath him.
Erdogan from childhood has had a twisted world view. Not just because of his Islamist view, but because of who shaped his young concepts of the world.
The tenet's upon which Islam is built is bad enough, but his early fixation on Mein Kampf brings the worst of 2 regimes of thought together.
And Turkey will be destroyed by him unless he is checked. Imagine the butchery he will bring to the Middle East if he is allowed to rebirth ISIS and promote al Qaeda with an expansionist policy taking over 1/2 of the Middle East. Fueled by funds for the idealogically blinded EU. They still believe that Socialism is the path of the future. Bastiat punctured that illusion in the 1850's, too many did not learn from him. Millions of deaths at the hands of those "true believers" should have done it, but it obviously did not.
That said, the moral aspect of life cannot be removed from the equation.
I have a book in my library that is titled “The Power of Ethical Management”. In it is a sentence that has stuck in my mind for many years.
“The numbers can all be right, and the decision still be wrong.”
It is true in life, in Personal, Business and Government. That concept and my belief that good cannot be built upon evil cement my view of Erdogan the Islamist. (made up phrase or not)
With regards to Erdogan:
“if we can somehow safeguard Christians and Israel”
Big but necessary order.
That is not in the Islamic play book.
No human ever really “wins” a war. A great price is always extracted.
And Jefferson’s tree of Liberty is very thirsty.
The only stories I’ve read always blamed the Turks.
Don't know about soetoro not liking them though.
After winning in 2008 his first call was to erdogan.
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