Tag: Kurds
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Some Clarity on the US Withdrawal from Syria
“WE ARE NOT GOING THIS ALONE” October 10, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Many in the media and some in the Congress are joining “ex-Pentagon” and “ex-State Department officials” complaining about the president’s decision to withdraw the tiny remaining US force from Syria. They make it sound as though President Trump has given the Turks…
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100 Years Ago the Great Powers Created a Great Mess!
NOW THE DONALD’S TURN? October 9, 2019 Dear Editor, A cursory study of the Great Powers’ Middle-Eastern interference/domination history, from France’s 18th-century invasion of Egypt up until a century ago, reveals the Great Powers’ forced rearranging of historical Middle-Eastern borders. At least Greece was then liberated from 400 years of Turkish Ottoman-Empire subjugation. However, the…