Richard Fernandez, PJ Media: Syria Risks Becoming Erdogan's Vietnam
Turkey's border offensive against the Kurds, far from being a blitzkrieg, is limited by the resources available to Ankara's forces. According to DW, its goal is to bring a 15,360- square kilometer swath under its control. "Turkey wants to create a 32-kilometer-deep, 480-kilometer-long corridor (20 miles deep, 300 miles long) inside Syria along the border to protect its security... it plans to resettle nearly 1 million of its 3.6 million Syrian refugees who hail from other parts of Syria inside the 'safe zone.'" But it must do so by installment and on a shoestring.
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WNU Editor: Turkey's border offensive against the Kurds is not Vietnam. But its offensive is
destabilizing the region, will cost a great deal in blood and treasure, and there is going to be blow-back against the Turks in Turkey itself.
3 comments:
Erdoganism....What about the opinion of the Syrian government? After all it is their country.
The Home Front for the Vietnam War hotted up in earnest with the Battle of the Port Huron Statement. One might think of the subsequent war protests as denouement not climax.
Similarly, the early battles for Syrian Kurdistan was the gay pride parades in Ankara & Instanbul of 2013.
Do you remember them?
I don't either.
I am not sure they happened.
From 2009 to 2012 the gay pride parades were larger. Gay pundits proclaimed it with pride for several years and when the parades stopped were quiet as liberal church mice. Like any other liberal they cannot be honest about a God damn thing.
I looked at the parades as a bellwether or like a canary in a coal mine. It was an indication of how tolerant Turkey was or was not. Erdogan burst on to the scene (in our view) in the lat 1990s and in 15 to 20 years his forces (or countervailing forces) have won. So the Kurdish solution might merely be denouement not climax.
Meanwhile, when the battle was hot and heavy, gays in Europe and the US were not supporting their brethren but playing tiddlywinks. Why pay attention to the nadir of gay rights in Turkey that you were just spotlighting, when you can showcase something else. That is the problem with spotlight journalism and advocacy. Watch the birdie.
Im glad Trump is following my stand back anx watch suggestion. NW Syria is a good place to have an Alamo event. Let Erdogan do the fightibg...Russian special forces may be the next accidental target.
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