The White House has once again reiterated that the Turkish plan to impose a no-fly zone over Syria is “not on the table at this point,” following a week of Syrian airstrikes against the same rebels that the US and its allies are attacking.
There is still “active consideration” of the imposition of a buffer zone in northern Syria, however, one of the other ideas being pushed by Turkey. No specific plan has been endorsed yet, but there are several different proposals from Turkey on the matter, according to the State Department.
The buffer zone has been discussed for years. From the Turkish perspective it is primarily the carving out of some territory inside Syria to house refugees that are otherwise flocking to Turkey and other nations by the millions. Other nations have suggested the buffer zones could also be used as staging grounds for pro-US rebel factions, which seems to defeat the purpose of making them combat-free zones for refugees.
It is noteworthy that this plan, the more aggressive of the two, is being considered while no-fly zones are not. This may reflect the US desire to see Syria continue its own air war against ISIS, despite public denials that they are working with the Assad government.
An English, it means that wh and turkish Erdogan rehime are looking forward to negotiate with ISIS trying to put the leash on them for further cooperation for ISIS to create their caliphat in northern Syria and Iraq, which has been the plan from day one.
Buffer zones are an invasion of Syria by a ground army, and occupation, in the face of a large and hostile army that will get around to it eventually. Since we are unwilling to fight such a war to its end of defeat of the Syrian Army and occupation of Syria a la Iraq, we had best not start it.
International community — Deaf, dumb and blind
The goal of Empire USA being to destroy the economy of all the Middle-East, thereby creating the kind of hostility and violence that maximizes the profit in trading war materials for oil, surely, to allow such Empire greed to go ape crazy with a no-fly zone with unlimited killer drones seeking out and destroying anything that may help the economy, this is human society for you, at a total loss of how to protect itself from an Empire hell-bent on expansion.
Such that humanity has no ability to cope with evil, a thing we should have known all along.
Obola wouldn´t dare violate Syria with a no-fly zone, knowing full well that the syrian air defences are excellent untouched by war and one of, if not THE, best in the region with all the Russian supersonic nasties one can wish for, incl. S-300. Russia is also capable, if it so whishes, to shoot down hostile warplanes from the Russian territory. A NFZ will be met with a NFZ
Russia didn´t blink in syria the previous year during Obola´s ridiculed "red, pink lines" certainly not in the Ukraine and not now. Russia is serious, Obola is not. Obola chicken out…