Posted on 10/15/2019 10:52:38 PM PDT by rintintin
Whenever neoconservatives and liberals chant in unison about American policy in the Middle East as when they championed the Iraq invasion, for example, or the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, or the thwarted attempt to topple the Assad regime in Syria it means we are being told a pack of lies. Par for the course is the hysterical response to President Donald Trumps betrayal of the Kurds in the wake of Turkeys invasion of northern Syria.
Turkeys goal was to repatriate at least two million of 3.6 million Syrian refugees inside Turkey in a border zone controlled, until the invasion began, by the US-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Ankara considers that group to be an extension of the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), which is also active in the region, has committed countless atrocities inside Turkey and is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and America.
Since Turkey was never going to back down, Middle East pundits appeared to be arguing that Trump should actually have risked going to war with a fellow Nato member that houses American nuclear weapons at its Incirlik Air Base. Worse, this would have been in defense of the Kurds, with whom the US has no defense treaty and whose ad hoc alliance with the US in Syria was formed with the explicit and limited goal of fighting the now defeated Islamic State. Going into battle against the Turks would also, of course, have meant betraying a historic ally, not to mention potentially causing the outbreak of a third world war.
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Muslims will be fighting someone or each other until the last muslim is dead. The last one will remind us of the black knight at the bridge.
Bring them home.
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