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| General Says U.S. Does Not Support Kurdish Entity in Syria |
| 2015-07-15 |
| [AnNahar] The United States does not support the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish entity in northern Syria, the U.S. special envoy for the coalition against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Death Eaters said Tuesday. Kurdish fighters have made gains in war-torn Syria against the Islamic State (IS) group, notably in land close to the border in the north with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , triggering concern in Ankara that the Kurds might attempt to establish their own state in Syria. "We don't support, and I don't think the Kurds support in northern Syria, a separate governmental entity," said retired general John Allen. "It is important that a partner that has ultimately been enabled to defeat Daesh (IS) does not become an occupying force," Allen told a Washington think tank. Turkey has fought a 31-year insurgency in its southeast by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara claims is closely linked to the main Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia. Allen also admitted that some of Washington's allies in the war with IS would be unnerved by Tuesday's nuclear deal between the West and Iran. "For many of the members of the coalition, Iran has been, is and probably will remain one of the principal sources of threat to their national security," he said. "I won't speculate on the outcome of the announcement made this morning with respect to whether it will fundamentally change Iran's behavior, but it's of course a very important question for all" coalition members, Allen said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 What is wrong? Leftism is both a disease and a religion. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-07-15 21:21 |
| #7 What is wrong with these people? |
| Posted by: newc 2015-07-15 19:45 |
| #6 How is the seemingly pro-Federal Iraq Obama Admin going to prevent Iraq's breakup, espec as it is materially-n-$$$ helping Iraq's Allies in the anti-ISIS/ISIL fight get militarily stronger in order to defeat the ISIS/ISIL in lieu of using US Troops??? TO PARAPH CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER > "OOOOPPPPSSSSIES"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-07-15 19:41 |
| #5 Why should they leave when the evidence is they've been there longer than Turks? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-07-15 17:15 |
| #4 As I recall, the Kurds are currently about a quarter of Turkey's population; with a much higher birthrate than the Turks, they are projected to become the majority in a generation or two. Why should they leave, when with patience they will inherit control of the entire country? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-07-15 16:54 |
| #3 I'm sure this is to molify Turkey. A better way would be to convince the Kurds in Turkey (and Iran) to migrate to a new homeland in Northern Iraq and Syria. That would solve Turkey's problem, cut off Iranian support for nonsense in Lebanon and create a bad-ass state in the middle-east that wasn't insane. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-07-15 14:18 |
| #2 Allen stating what could be categorized as a 'blinding flash of the obvious.' The greater question should be, why does the U.S. not support the Kurds ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-15 11:27 |
| #1 Allen is closely tied to the Brookings Institution, a left-wing think tank. His mush-mouthed comments on the Kurds in Syria and his seeming apologia for the Iran nuclear deal should indicate where he stands politically. |
| Posted by: Clyde Borgia7976 2015-07-15 09:52 |