I sent this to the list last week… > From: Marv Gandall <[email protected]> > Subject: More on Turkish-US fiddling while Kobani burns > Date: October 8, 2014 at 6:34:36 PM EDT > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <[email protected]>, LBO <[email protected]>, Pen-L Economics > <[email protected]> > > More evidence that Turkey, backed by the US, is waiting for the IS to finish > off the left-wing resistance in Kobani and further cleanse the region of > Kurds before moving against the reactionary Islamists with its own ground > forces and establishing a Turkish buffer zone inside the border with Syria. > > http://www.bloomberg.com/video/u-s-turks-in-cahoots-on-kobani-siege-ginsberg-says-H_Jigzt8S1eqp~9qkKClGA.html
On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/14/14, 8:59 PM, Perelman, Michael wrote: >> I am in Turkey now. What I hear is that Turkey is waiting until they are >> able to take over part of Syria. No chance that they will enter the fight >> to protect the city. > > Exactly. What are people thinking of? The Turks will > certainly contemplate the liquidation of the Kurds quite > complacently. Why on earth would they ever want to > protect them? > > The only effect this campaign will have is to make the Turks look > bad in the aftermath. Perhaps that's the intent. It's hard > to figure out what's going on here. Matters may have rather > spun out of the control of those who originally set them in > motion. > > Meanwhile there' a certain grim satisfaction in seeing tropes > recycled from the Balkan wars. If Susan Sontag were still among > us, she would no doubt helicopter in and stage a performance > of Waiting For Godot. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
