Here is a view of the Turkey-Syria-Kurd situation 180 degrees opposite Ron Paul’s:
An article from long term Automatic Earth contributor Alexander Aston, who feels very strongly about the topic.
Personally, I have many more questions left. It’s easy to say Trump abandoned the Kurds, and everybody says just that, but because they all do I ask myself if that is really what happened. It’s an ugly situation alright, but would it have been prefereable if US soldiers had stayed in Syria indefinitely?
I’m looking at France, UK, Germany, Holland, refusing to repatriate ‘their’ ISIS citizens, leaving the US -and the Kurds- to take care of them, of the conundrum, and of the consequences. There’s no question that leaving it up to Erdogan is a bad idea, but Putin has already taken over command.
Everyone but Capitol Hill agrees it’s a good idea to get the US out of Endless Wars, but they haven’t been doing anything about it for many years. And when Trump does, there are no intricate discussions, there’s only black or white and then there’s Orange Man Bad.
Should Trump have gone the Obama route and bombed the heebeejeebees out of the country? you know, rather than let Turkey do it, knowing full well that Putin would stop it anyway?
But this is Alexander’s piece, not mine, and I love him.
Alexander Aston:
“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
– Murray Bookchin
Like the best of his generation, my American grandfather was a die-hard antifascist. He was shot down twice over Europe and spent the last nine months as a prisoner of war. The old man was highly decorated, earning a distinguished flying cross with three oak leaf clusters, four air medals, a silver star and a purple heart. However, the only memento of the war he ever showed me as a child was the tin mug that he ate from while in prison camp.
