Today is yet another time for doctors and hospitals…..I will be depending on drafts that I have for my posts today……I apologize if some of this is not as fresh as you are use to…..but getting old does have its draw backs……
Syria is a fascinating region to research….and since we are ass deep in a rebellion against Assad while simultaneously fighting the terror group ISIS…in the beginning 2011 give or take a couple of months……it all started with people rising up in opposition to the Assad regime and then BAM!….enter the group ISIS and all Hell broke lose…..
In the beginning we constantly told the world that we were working with the Syrian Arab Alliance ….but who is this SAA?
the US announced plans to dramatically increase aid to a group calling itself the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a heretofore unmentioned which itself was presented as having just been formed out of a similarly unknown faction called the Syrian Arab Coalition, which was nominally the recipient of large airdrops of US arms.
The group didn’t form out of nowhere, of course, and in many ways it didn’t form at all, as the indications are that the Democratic Forces exist in name only, and were largely an invention of the US for branding’s sake after the last failed rebel-creation plan.
The “Arab groups” involved are all but non-existent, meaning the Democratic Forces boil down to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), simply relabeled in hopes that the US can start pouring aid into them more rapidly without infuriating Turkey for arming the YPG.
There you are….an invention……..a rouse to keep Turkey in the fold….so to speak.
You see Turkey has been fighting the Kurds for decades….most of it began in the 1970’s with the PKK fighting for separation of the Kurds from Turkey.
Yup!
getting old does have its draw backs……
This is off topic, but I am still waiting the day when a Republican calls me a Muslim Communist. Ever been called a Muslim Communist?
I apologize but this comment was sent to my spam folder….sorry…..No i have never been called that….lots of other insults but that one I have missed….I was called a Muslim because of my name….but I set that idiot on the right path….again I apologize……chuq
No problem
Do the comments work?
I did not get one…I checked back….and check site all seems working okay…try again and let me know….chuq
I tried to comment earlier, and I don’t think it worked
If you ever want to have some fun poking a “rightie,” you can check this guy out. I had some fun.
https://swordattheready.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/obama-insists-isis-contained-not-growing-hours-before-jihad-attack-in-paris/#comment-38068
OMG! Those idiots are a one note song. Immigrants! You have more patience than I….
I thought I’d poke him a bit. We went back and forth for a couple of days…
I hate to generalize but Righties all have the same tune…..it gets a bit boring just reading their crap.
It’s fun for me to poke ’em once in a while…but not every day.
That’s partly why I don’t put my name out there – you never know who’s a gun nut…
If he is on the Right then I believe that prudence is the better part of valor these days….