Friday, October 11, 2019

NATO should be responsible for securing North Syria's Buffer Zone

The Commander of the NATO forces, in speaking on TV the other day seemed to suggest NATO as the agency that should oversee the buffer zone of  northern Syria, which the Turks are currently invading.

Indeed, Turkey is a member of NATO and seems appropriate to handle the influx of displaced persons that are to be relocated through a Turkish Presidential order and design.

There is simply plenty of room in the buffer area for more people and their property, as pointed out by several independent observers on the scene.  No need for the Kurds to leave the area they are currently living in but years of animosity voiced by Turkish leaders.

And be it noted, that Kurds live in Turkey without threat of extinction, despite the apparent social ostracism, if not extinction, being pursued by the Turkish government in northern Syria.  The Turks have no legitimate claim to the territory Trump is seemingly ceding to that country.  Besides,  the few American troops that were in northern Syria before President Trump's order to leave, were tiny in number but huge in beneficial effect towards order and stability in the region.   

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