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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
To fight ISIS the US has to placate Turkey and protect Syria's Kurds
2018-11-24
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's recent shelling of the Syrian Kurds once again highlighted the precarious situation the United States faces in Syria. On the one hand, it needs to placate Turkey while it continues to support its Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) rival. On the other, it needs to ensure the protection of the YPG from Turkey so that it continues to focus its efforts and resources on fighting the 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....
(ISIS).
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Thanks Mike! Some things merit remembering.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-24 16:51  

#2  Screw Turkey. Remember the 4th ID.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-11-24 15:47  

#1  The Iranian backed militias won't be out of Syria anytime soon.
Posted by: jvalentour   2018-11-24 09:40  

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