Though both France and the US claim to oppose the ongoing shelling by fellow NATO member Turkey across the border into northern Syria, they both shot down a Russian resolution at the UN Security Council that would’ve called on Turkey to actually stop.
US Ambassador Samantha Power dismissed the resolution as an attempt to “distract the world” from Russia’s own involvement in the Syria war. France, by contrast, appeared to ignore the content of the resolution entirely, just lashing them for supporting the Assad government.
Turkey began shelling northern Syria last weekend, mostly targeting Kurdish sites, but also hitting Syrian military targets as well. Turkey’s Ambassador insisted the country is facing a “national security threat” from the Kurds and must continue the attacks.
Despite blocking the resolution calling for a halt to the attacks, the White House says that they called for Turkey to stop the attacks, and also called on the Kurds to stop taking over territory in Syria, despite the US having heavily backed the ongoing Kurdish offensive.
The Syrian Kurds and the US are supposed to be allies, allowing Turkey to shell, invade and destroy them would be the ultimate back stab.
USA’s support for Syrian Kurds is a political ruse (an action intended to deceive someone; a trick).
America’s military good excuse for being in Syria and once the conflict ends—good old Uncle Scam will demand part of the spoils of war—oil
The Kurds are basically communist – the USA will get an awful shock when they realise who is actually hosting them.
It’s time for the EU and US to look up the definition of the UN responsibilities to the World. Its to provide Peaceful influence and to secure ” Sovereignty to all nations with democratically elected governments”. If Turkey can continue to bomb and support ISIS armies in Syria, then there is no need for the UN and the US taxpayer funded UN needs to Dissolve — Immediately. Both the UN and the Hague are nothing more than fake showpieces for the US, EU and Israel.
No, the UN is not a world government. It was very specifically not meant to be that. When one Secretary General overstepped that, he was assassinated — Dag Hammarskjöld.
The UN was meant to be a talking shop, that keeps the major powers talking. If anything is to be done, it is meant to be done by the members after talking, not by the UN itself.
The idea of UN action is a common misperception, encouraged by media, but not at all what any of the major member states actually want or would support.
If I was Russia, I would give the artillery unit a one day warning to back away from their big guns as they are about to be bombed into scrap steel. For to destroy the weapons while keeping harmless the troops, this could start a new kind of war, a war on weapons.
Damned good idea. Let the US know one day ahead of time so the Turks get a warning from us and then blow the hell out of them.
Well a few yrs ago I contacted my congress man through one of his aids we talked for quit a while and I told her this time I’am not against Russia She seemed rather shocked . I told her this time you might say I’am in favor of Russia . I explained the situation and she said she had decided I wasn’t crazy , I thanked her for saying that . she said I will tell him what you said . Now here again is another time I want my congressman to know that I’am not automatically against everything that Russia does But I’am getting very close to be automatically against almost every thing the United States does . This is beginning to really affect me Iam getting mad because as a U.S citizen I’am responsible for the government I have working for me . We are at the point where we have to change our government or change our country
You sound like what Israel tries to do in Gaza send warning before they drop the bombs . Turkey is Muslim so they will try to get their women and children under the bombs . So the world will feel sorry for the victims .
This is further proof that Obama is behind Erdogan’s push for an invasion of Syria. As for “back-stabbing” the Kurds, this is classic Obama behavior: lie to his allies and the public and pursue another agenda privately.
Don’t know if it’s Obama or the neocons that run his State Dept. I really wonder how much control he actually has over State or Defense. In fact, I wonder how much control he has over anything. The EPA seems controlled by Wall Street, as is Justice, no one seems to be minding the VA except Bernie so they can’t get squat out of Congress without a battle. The whole government is being controlled by entities outside the government so why did we fight to get this guy in?
Just as when Hillary was running the State Dept., the neocons are in charge. I guess that was Obama’s price for getting the Presidency.
The US wants the Kurds to fight for US interests, not for Kurdish interests.
Not going to happen. That isn’t how the world works.
The US interest is to beat back the insurgents against Assad who have run out of control, totally insane as enemies of the whole world, while keeping in play the insurgents still fighting Assad as the US wants.
The Kurds want a Kurdish nation in the territory that was Syria, and to link that to other Kurds next door.
Turkey VERY MUCH does not want what the Kurds want, because they want part of Turkey.
The US makes promises to everyone, keeps none of them, all to get what it wants that has little to do with those promises.
The sad fact is that any likely outcome of the Syria fighting will once again betray the Kurds, and the Kurds know that.
In 2012 the boot was on the other foot.
2012
“The UN Security Council overcame deep divisions to unanimously approve a statement Thursday condemning Syria’s shelling of a Turkish town that killed five women and children “in the strongest terms.”
Council members managed to bridge differences between the strong statement demanded by the United States and its Western supporters and backed by their NATO ally Turkey, and a weaker text pushed by Russia, Syria’s most important ally, after negotiations that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday.
Read more: http://www.newshub.co.nz/world/un-strongly-condemns-syria-shelling-of-turkey-2012100512#ixzz40qqrgnD3