What was the actual reason I came here this evening...?
Ah yes... here comes the next glorious act of the mighty, highly professional and endlessly estimated US military.
The pooh CENTCOM-boys can't stop whining about bad, bad, oh-so-bad Turks smashing their terrorist friends of the PKK: US: Turkey gave about 20 minutes notice before Syria strikes
Oh boy, how could they...?
The strike obviously endangered US troops cooperating directly with the PKK. Then, it's not as if professional military units deployed in the field - like US troops 'not' deployed in northern Syria (because, at least officially, the USA still have 'no boots on the ground' there) - should be able of moving out at 5-15 minutes notice. Any time. Isn't it?
Well, the very same Turkish troops declared 'incompetent' by the very same CENTCOM, are drilled to do so within 10 minutes.
So, when does the CENTCOM as next? Sends its proud and distinguished officers to demonstratively show themselves in the public together with worst sort of PKK's terrorists...
Hand on heart: what does the CENTCOM expect? The Turks to provide a 24-hours advance warning so the USA can inform the PKK terrorists that are fighting Turkey since 30+ years on time...?
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Another 'pearl' about that affair: most of PKK/PYDYPG/YPJ units hit by Turks in this attack were those from the Efrin enclave.
Hey CENTCOM: you ever consult the map of the area you're talking about?
I know: things can get damn complex in the Middle East. But, any clue where is Efrin?
That's the north-western corner of Syria. The Kurds there are isolated from the outside world since five years: well, until they made friends with Assadists and the Russians. And, as firm as they always are, in the meantime they declared themselves the SDF - i.e. 'US supported'.
Now, sure: they never got an ounce of any kind of US support (well, not until now), nor ever fought the Daesh as a part of the SDF. But hey: they're Marxist terrorists of the PKK, which means they know everything better. It thus doesn't matter if for the last five years they were attacking the FSyA in the Azaz area (don't forget them parading 30+ bodies of Syrian revolutionaries KIA last year, 'Daesh-style', on the streets of Efrin) or ethnically cleansed 45,000 Arabs out of Tel Rifa'at - before looting that town to the last screw they were able to get out of that place.
And when they've got nothing better to do then they fight Turkey - the very same NATO-ally of the USA, from which soil the USA are running operations in support of the PKK - and that in a direct violation of US laws prohibiting any kind of cooperation with the PKK, because this is designated a terrorist organization.
Some lovely allies there, so much is sure.
But, heh, that's what one gets when the (quasi) democratically elected civilian administration completely loses the control of the Pentagon, and then the Department of Defence runs the US foreign policy - instead of the State Department (which, BTW, could be against certain laws and regulations in the USA... or couldn't it...? Hm... who can say nowadays....). This, of course, 'never happened'. Then, this is impossible to happen in the 'craddle of democracy'. Therefore, a process that began already under Oblabla, and is nowadays a tragic reality - even more so considering the Trump admin failed to appoint 47 positions under Mattis - 'never happened'.
Wonderful.
What a surprise then, when one reads stories of this kind:
Right now the Department of Defense can't even keep track of where a carrier is or where it is headed
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