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A bit off topic, Tom, but important:
"Syrian Kurdish official - deal for Syrian army to enter Afrin"
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey/syrian-kurdish-official-deal-for-syrian-army-to-enter-afrin-idUKKCN1G20QD
No surprise since it was only a matter of time before the US was to betray, yet again, the Kurds.
@lastgreek
Syrian Arabs and Kurds against Turkish incursion into Syria.
That is what I meant to say, Tom. The Kurds realized that the US would once again choose Turkey over them, and that is why they struck a deal with the Syrian Arabs (remains to be seen of course).
By the way did you read David Graeber's recent article on Juan Cole?
"Manufactured ignorance: The strange case of Juan Cole and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, and the International Liberal Intelligentsia"
...Cole seems to share an instinctual sympathy for “moderate Islamist” strongmen, and an equally instinctual antipathy to anyone in his chosen area of study who purports to share his own left-wing commitments.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in his limitless animus against Turkey’s Kurdish Worker’s Party, or PKK, and any other element of the larger Kurdish Freedom Movement of which the PKK is a part.
http://www.focaalblog.com/2018/02/16/david-graeber-manufactured-ignorance/#sthash.4oJ3ObTz.dpuf
You know, the mere mention in the comments section of Cole's blog of the illegal Turkish occupation of Cyprus results in the removal of said comment.
Thanks, I was not aware of Graeber on Cole.
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