US officials have long objected to Turkey’s actions in Syria, and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper suggested Wednesday that he believes Turkey’s planned resettlement of refugees into the territory in northern Syria that the Turkish military now occupies will destabilize the situation.
Turkey has made no bones about wanting to get rid of some of those Syrian refugees, and that it views the occupied “safe zone” in northwest Syria as a natural place to send them.
Turkey’s invasion and occupation of the safe zone is already a subject of a lot of disagreement, as it is creating tension with the local Kurds. Sending in a million war refugees, all of them with their own beefs from the war, will likely add to differing agendas in the area.
Pentagon officials were already predicting a full instability and a return to ISIS in the next 6-12 months if US troops left, and are now predicting Turkey’s plan will make things even worse.
I know the US government is unlikely to admit that we supported IS in Syria . I know we said we supported the Syrian free army which were the rebels . We armed and trained the rebels . But when it was time to fight most all the rebels we trained disappeared taking their us supplied weapons with them . Only the Kurds could be relied to fight ISIS and of course Assad’s regular Syrian army . Most of the army we trained joined ISIS or later usually Assad’s legitimate Syrian army . This is just another war where we had no business being involved in
The Pentagon frets a lot about an unstable Syria.
That’s rich. A high official talking about destabilization of the Middle East after our military actions in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
And how is this important for the defense of the United States? It is high time refugees are coming home. And our role should be to help them any which way we can, if nothing then give moral support. We need to refrain from interfering in everybody’s business.
As for Kurds, they will have to hightail back to heir homes and vacate homes, apartments and business they took while kicking out their owners when they ruled the region. They are still acting like US owes them protection.
They have not been kicked out of their homes by any other ethnic group. But they abused their power within the area anointed to them by US, so it may feel weird coming down in life.
At present, Russia has sent special teams to help clean up Raqqa from mines, food was brought in, and major effort will be undertaken to restore utilities, clean up damaged structures, so people could return. It will be helpful to see progress in Aleppo and other places that have enjoyed peace for a while. Life will return to areas of Syria after US left.
The problem with our political approach to anything is putting down anything that works, unless we can take credit. It is sheer wonder we accomplish anything being so immature.
Destabilize Syria? Is Syria stable now in any way at all? Who exactly has stabilized it, if anyone?
This suggestion of danger is insulting, as in laughing in our face. How stupid do they think we are? Oh. That stupid. Are we? Some of us, apparently. Team Hillary was, demanding that we save Syria by doing all this to it.