Replies to post #254075 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Yes, the Kurds have two opponents there, with Daesh a real pain-in-the-ass,

NATO to Meet After Turkey Request to Discuss Rising Violence
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=115704771

yet the Kurds are Turkey's main focus. No doubt.

That one paints a much more realistic picture of the situation than mine did. I should have at least blinked at the heading.

[fuagf]

No one can suggest bloody war isn't complicated

In Syria, Rebels Threaten Kurdish-Controlled Territory as U.S. Allies Clash

By ANNE BARNARDAUG. 28, 2016


Turkish tanks on Saturday driving from Karkamis, Turkey, across the border into Syria. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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The United States has in recent days appeared to rebalance its support for the Kurdish militias with its backing of the Syrian rebels and Turkey, a NATO ally. The Turks consider the Syrian Kurdish militias their enemy and are intent on keeping them from taking over an unbroken stretch of land along the border.

As part of that rebalancing, the United States warned the Kurds last week that they should return to the eastern side of the Euphrates River, essentially asking them to cede control of areas they had seized recently from Islamic State fighters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-isis-kurds-turkey.html

when friends are fighting each other .. i read earlier the Kurds had broken a promise not to pass a line ..

David Gilmour - "Breathe" / "Time"

.. there is heaps of good music in this series .. .. just thinking, too, it sure isn't the first time the West (the US) has betrayed the Kurds .. in this case there is so much to balance ..