Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(10-11-2019, 09:16 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 11-Oct-2019 World View: ISIS prisoner hyperbole

(10-11-2019, 07:00 AM)David Horn Wrote: You know, there is a lot of sunlight between withdrawing in an organized fashion, with all ones allies onboard, and this.  What about the 1,000 hardcore ISIS fighters who will undoubtedly vaporize from the scene?  No thought!

At the very least, the Kurds deserved a few weeks advance notice to make real plans and execute on them.  Telling people to piss off starting tomorrow is criminal, when they are going to die."

There's a lot of hyperbole going on.  The Kurds have been expecting this for a year, and they say they're well prepared for it.  And there are reports that the Turks are experiencing greater resistance than they had expected.

As for "No thought!", the ISIS prisoner problem has been thought about from the beginning.  They're being used as pawns in the negotiations.  The Kurds can't just set them free, since the first thing they'll do when they're free is beat, rape, kill and dismember as many Kurds as they can.  The Turks can't allow that, since after killing all the Kurds they can, they'll cross into Turkey and start laying IEDs.  The Russians can't allow it either, because a lot of them come from Russia's Caucasus region, and they'll go back.  Same for the British, French, Germans and Belgians.  So the ISIS prisoners are just part of a grand game.

Sorry.  I just can't get excited about withdrawing 50 soldiers from observation posts.

Well, this didn't work the way you though it would, did it? It wasn't the 50 observers that were yanked, but the entire 1,000 Green Berets. Now, the Kurds work for the Russians and the ISIS prisoners are already on the loose. Nice play!