Reality versus Fantasy – Obama’s Proxy War In Syria

By Eddie Peders

The Kurdish people are fighting our terrorist enemies and losing their lives in the process, and it’s not just men, 30% of Kurdish fighters are now female fighters, who can never be captured alive.  Think about that the next time you can’t find a shopping cart at the local grocery store.  Think about it when you’re grilling hot dogs and burgers this Fourth of July, or when you hear the national anthem this weekend.  These men and women fight in your place.  Think about what you have done for them.

Of course Turkey is making a bundle off of this Syrian proxy war, monies from the USA and concerned European nations are pouring into Turkish President Erdogan’s hands, and Ankara’s political big wigs don’t want the cash to stop flowing.  But for now, the Kurds have warned Erdogan to stay the hell out of their Syrian affairs, because they are too busy killing the real terrorists to be bothered with Erdogan’s vendetta against Assad.  And the Kurds should get away with saying it too.  Not surprisingly, Turkey is upset because the Kurds are expanding their grip on the border, therefore they are able to secure and shut down supply routes from Turkey to the alleged freedom fighters in Syria, while strengthening Kurdish power in Syria.

The Kurdish people are fighting our terrorist enemies and losing their lives in the process, and it’s not just men, 30% of Kurdish fighters are now female fighters, who can never be captured alive.  Think about that the next time you can’t find a shopping cart at the local grocery store.  Think about it when you’re grilling hot dogs and burgers this Fourth of July, or when you hear the national anthem this weekend.  These men and women fight in your place.  Think about what you have done for them.

Of course Turkey is making a bundle off of this Syrian proxy war, monies from the USA and concerned European nations are pouring into Turkish President Erdogan’s hands, and Ankara’s political big wigs don’t want the cash to stop flowing.  But for now, the Kurds have warned Erdogan to stay the hell out of their Syrian affairs, because they are too busy killing the real terrorists to be bothered with Erdogan’s vendetta against Assad.  And the Kurds should get away with saying it too.  Not surprisingly, Turkey is upset because the Kurds are expanding their grip on the border, therefore they are able to secure and shut down supply routes from Turkey to the alleged freedom fighters in Syria, while strengthening Kurdish power in Syria.

So somehow the Kurds are supposed to allow arms into the hands of alleged Freedom Fighters who have sworn allegiances with the terrorists because these alleged Magical Fighters say they will only shoot in Assad’s direction?  And not let their arms fall into the hands of terrorists who would definitely turn the gun barrels and rocket launchers towards Kurdish held areas?  These are all the assurances we get?  Remember, real people are fighting these terrorist monsters and dying, Kurdish men and women die daily, and to make matters worse this is a hideously ugly Islamic war being fought against Daesh monsters who do the most horrific things to the people they capture.  This isn’t a nice squeaky clean Geneva convention conflict.  Kurdish women really do carry the last bullet for themselves and in some cases have had to actually use it.  This particular war will be long remembered as an incredibly ugly and notoriously dark chapter in human history.  You can rest assured of that.

Once again, in a hot shooting war it’s a good idea to starve the bad guys of weapons while funneling superior weaponry into the hands of those who are fighting in our stead.  Our Administration has let their ambition get the better of them in that weapons being funneled into a region known for factions allegiances changing overnight puts thousands of civilians at risk and could case the loss of Kurdish fighting men and women.  Let us be crystal clear about Assad.  Yes, Assad has done some really bad things, everybody knows that.  Yet he protects Syria’s Christians who are just one faction amongst many rare and unique peoples in Syria, and Assad supports a secular society, yet he has used gas in the past.  And it is here where we come down to the hard realities of this whole nightmare.  Hard realities beget hard problems that demand the harshest remedies.  And the realities in the region aren’t this Zinn and Chomsky blame-America-First alternate reality, but the one true reality,  which is that Assad, like him or not, his Syrian dilemma is incredibly similar to Muammar Gadhafi and the collapse of Libya.  It is a dramatically yet eerily similar situation, only it is happening in a completely different country.  So hear our warning now, pull the keystone out of this particular arch and an entire nation comes crashing down in genocidal ruins.  This is the reality, not some alternate reality, where the Freedom Fighters turn into Magical Fighters and defeat Assad then plant their magical flag in Damascus and the Terrorists all go away!  Just like the comic books!  Please, Washington, get a grip, come on, people. This isn’t that hard a thing to figure out, if we can do it, then our government should be able to do it too.

We are subjected to an endless Assad obsession

Time and time again we think ‘what the heck is it with the obsession to oust Assad’.  Is it that Obama once said he would (and like his promise to pull out of Iraq) topple Assad regardless of the consequences?  Is that it?  Is it petro dollars being fueled into this horrible specter shooting war to oust Assad and build the Islamic pipeline?  Is that it?  Is it oil rich checkerboard Arabic states?  Is it them?  Are they the ones fueling the west’s fantasy that they can oust Assad and then become billionaires by investing in the mega Islamic oil and natural gas pipeline that would surely be constructed?  Is it being done to further cripple Russia by breaking their grip on European fossil fuel markets?  Is it a vendetta, pure hatred or blind ambition and greed?  What compels one to funnel in vast amounts of arms and money into the hands of deserters and insurrectionists who can change allegiances overnight?  Many put it up to man’s vanity.  Some say it’s being done because it serves the egos that fuel their oppositional defiant disorder.  But the overarching reality remains, people are needlessly dying because of it.  This policy could touch off the worst genocide of the new millennium.  With America’s Magical Fighters being the catalyst, all   preventable.