Posted on 10/18/2019 1:33:20 AM PDT by FRinCanada2
https://www.foxnews.com/world/fighting-breaks-out-in-syrian-town-despite-cease-fire-reporters-say
Just hours after President Trump announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, journalists have reported continued fighting in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Friday morning, while other areas have reported relative calm since the agreement.
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Nah - when you have a bunch of stone-age thugs with weapons, you’re gonna get some of this crap.
Meanwhile, President Trump is making good on another part of his promise to get our warriors out of harms way in wars/skirmishes we don’t need to be in.
When Bush started arming the Kurds, it was because they also wanted to kill ISIS folks and they did much of the fighting because their agenda paralleled ours on that issue.
We never signed a long-term pact/deal with them to keep up with our support - they’ve been fighting many battles for a couple centuries and it makes no sense to keep supplying them for the next 200 years.
And that one lonely plume of black smoke could have been a pile of tires being burned to fake out the gullible media. Before the EPA laws, we used to burn tires that made a smoky black plume like that.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
I thought the PKK was mostly actually in Turkey, not the other Kurdish groups. Erdowan has been trying to reislamize Turkey after Attaturk had made it mostly a secular state for many decades. Erdowan has been getting electoral pushback and probably decided he needed a war to build up national support.
From what I understand the PKK is both Syrian and Turkish. It is a Maoist/Marxist organization and is on the State department’s list of terrorist groups. President Obama set up the US military alliance with them and the Syrians Kurds went along since there was a common enemy in ISIS. The group which the President negotiated a pause with Turkey are the Syrian Kurds who are democratic and do not want an independent state but rather an autonomous region within a newly reconstituted Syria. They had already started last year after ISIS’s defeat to negotiate with Assad and had even set up an office in Damascus. See: THE KURDS, ASSAD AND THE SHAPE OF A FUTURE SYRIA in the Jerusalem Post 10/17/2019
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