MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS – US FINAL ORDER ABOUT PKK/PYD

17 March 2018 – A not-insignificant point made by Adm. Stavridis about #Turkey‘s frontier with #Syria: “This is a NATO border that we are sworn by treaty to protect.” It can be argued that underwriting a #PKK statelet along that border does not quite meet the spirit of that commitment.

James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, “In the end, U.S. policy in #Syria rests on the U.S. and #Turkey working together. … Only Turkey has the credibility, resources and geopolitical heft to steward U.S. interests in Northern Syria.”

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