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| Spengler: Washington's despicable hypocrisy towards the Kurds |
| 2017-09-27 |
| [PJMedia] At Asia Times today, I explain why the entire world (excepting Israel) have lined up against the Kurds: ...I just want to add that our foreign policy elite is a pack of hypocritical, yellow-bellied, two-faced, fork-tongued, lying polecats who wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it were tattooed on their ophidian foreheads. Since September 11, 2001, we've been told that America has to ally with moderate Muslims against "extremism." There are in fact moderate Muslims in the world. The Kurds are "moderate Muslims." ...The Kurds are everything that George W. Bush and Barack Obama told us we should find in the Islamic world, and more. They want nothing but friendship with the United States of America. And we have thrown them under the bus. There isn't an Appalachian outhouse that stinks worse than our foreign policy Establishment. Why have we thrown them under the bus? Because we're afraid of unsettling "extremists," that is, the radical jihadists who have been killing Americans for decades. Kurdish independence would below up the artificial state of Iraq, which turned into an Iranian satrapy under majority Shi'ite rule as arranged by George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and the nation-builders of the Republican Establishment. It would destabilize Turkey, where Kurds of military age will outnumber Turks a generation from now. Turkish President Erdogan wants to restore Ottoman glory and the prospect of losing the Kurdish-majority Southeast drives him crazy. Turkey, notionally the Southeast flank of NATO, has already turned its back on the West, and lined up with Russia and China. ... why are we so beholden to the doomed and destructive regimes of Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq that we cannot extend a hand of friendship to the Kurds? Their path to statehood may be tortuous and prolonged, but America should offer our counsel and support. If we do not, the rest of the Muslim world will smile grimly and exploit our moral cowardice. Mike Flynn's dismissal is a tragedy the extent of which we are just begining to grasp. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Well Said. The Kurds deserve our support far more than just about any ethnic group in the region. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-09-27 12:58 |
| #2 Strange how it works. Washington generally only applauds the illegitimate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-27 08:54 |
| #1 Why have we thrown them under the bus? Because we're afraid of unsettling "extremists," that is, the radical jihadists who have been killing Americans for decades. Turkey is in this mix of foot-draggers also. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-09-27 07:45 |