{"id":346723,"date":"2018-02-04T02:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-between-the-us-and-turkey\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T01:23:24","slug":"war-between-the-us-and-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-between-the-us-and-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"War Between the US and Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last summer, I was positioned just across the border from the Syrian town of Afrin around which Turkish and Kurdish and, possibly, American forces, are now poised for a head-on clash.\u00a0 It seems crazy to me that anyone would want to fight over this one-donkey farm town.\u00a0 We were there on a mission to rescue wild animals trapped in a zoo in war-torn Aleppo, Syria.<\/p>\n

Why on earth are at least 2,000 US troops mixed up in this fracas in darkest Syria?\u00a0 Because the pro-Israel neocons in Washington, who pretty much run US foreign policy these days, are determined to have revenge for the defeat of US-backed rebel forces in Syria.\u00a0 So it\u2019s once more into the breach near Afrin and the town Manbij though America has zero national interests in Syria. The US first tried to overthrow Syria\u2019s governments in Damascus in 1948 because it was too independent and flirting with the Soviets.\u00a0 Today\u2019s intervention is part of Israel\u2019s plan to fragment Syria and gobble up its water and fertile land resources.<\/p>\n

Worse, the Pentagon decided to enlist and arm rebellious Kurds in southern Turkey and Syria, and use them as \u2018native troops\u2019 to fight first the rag-tag bands of ISIS, then the Turkish armed forces.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a terrible idea \u2013 compounded by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s incredibly foolish recent announcement that the US would mobilize, arm and finance a \u2018border force\u2019 of 30,000 Kurds that was closely tied to the Kurdish PKK rebel group.\u00a0 Washington has only a child\u2019s understanding of events in Turkey and the dangers involved.\u00a0 Washington bills the PKK \u2018terrorists.\u2019\u00a0 Clearly, it can\u2019t even keep its \u2018terrorists\u2019 straight.\u00a0 The neocons under Trump have gutted the State Department.<\/p>\n


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Last summer, I was positioned just across the border from the Syrian town of Afrin around which Turkish and Kurdish and, possibly, American forces, are now poised for a head-on clash.\u00a0 It seems crazy to me that anyone would want to fight over this one-donkey farm town.\u00a0 We were there on a mission to rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}