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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
With ISIS in tatters, Syria Kurds fear US to abandon them
2017-12-15
[Rudaw] Syria's Kurds fear the steadfast ally they found in the US to successfully take on 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group jihadists may now leave them to face threats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Damascus alone.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Give them credit - the Kurds are not stupid when they assume we will sell them out.

Ideally, move ops to the Greek part of Crete, Hungary and Bulgaria and Romania where we already have basing rights, forward base in Kurdistan, and tear down all our buildings in Turkey on the way out, including the runways at the big airbases.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2017-12-15 21:03  

#4  and Greece, who could use the $ influx
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-15 20:40  

#3  Move assets from Turkey to Kurdistan?
Posted by: newc   2017-12-15 17:09  

#2  OMG we could annoy Turkey...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-12-15 05:33  

#1  It's virtually a certainty - unless the Don doesn't listen to his f*cking generals.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-15 02:45  

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