Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Can The Syrian Conflict Get Even Worse?


David Ignatius, Washington Post: How the Syrian conflict could get even bigger and bloodier

President Obama says he doesn't want to turn the Syria conflict into a proxy war.

Unfortunately, that's already happening, as combatants join the battle against the Islamic State with radically differing agendas that could collide.

Let's look at the confusing order of battle: The United States has decided that its strongest partner against the Islamic State is a Syrian Kurdish force known as the YPG.

But Turkey, nominally our NATO ally, says the YPG has links with what it claims is a Kurdish terrorist group. How's that going to work out? No answers yet.

WNU Editor: Sadly .... the answer is yes.

1 comment:

RRH said...

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/topstories/canadian-john-robert-gallagher-reportedly-killed-while-fighting-isis-in-syria-1.3304815

While I cannot say I agree with the position of the guys from Canada who go over there, I can understand why they do it.

In a different life, I would have made my stand with St George and the beetles.