Moon of Alabama — Syria – Tillerson Announces Occupation Goals – Erdogan Makes Empty Threats

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I have yet to read one analyst who believes that the U.S. administration can achieve any of the wishes it announced. It is a hapless policy of "doing something" which will fail when resistance on the ground will ramp up and the political costs of the occupation will become apparent. The YPK Kurds in the north-east, who agreed to their occupation, will be the ones who will have to to bear the wrath. All other parties involved in Syria will hold them responsible. Moon of AlabamaSyria - Tillerson Announces Occupation Goals - Erdogan Makes Empty Threats b

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: nation-building, Syria, US interventionism, US occupation

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