Thursday, July 21, 2016

Syrian Kurds , Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the Russian Federation


Look at Syria.  Cntrast and compare Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Nixonian Trump; Obama at home and Obama in the Middle East; King Salman and Obama-in the-Middle-East and Erdoğan;  Nixonian Trump with anyone.  Shudder for the fate of the World.


The Amnesty International report referenced in the article is Syria: Abductions, torture and summary killings at the hands of armed groups | Amnesty International

Further evidence of United States’ shameful support of Saudi Arabia.

How to love Obama at home and tolerate his Middle East policies?  How hopelessly inadequate are all Republican proscriptions for "how to defeat ISIS.  

I hope there are factors Obama cannot reveal about the Middle East to me and you for policy reasons.  And how are citizens to make reasonable decisions if that be the case?

Keep whatever hope remains alive.





هم‌زمان با گفت‌وگوهای قدرت‎های جهان دربارۀ ادامۀ آتش‌بس در سوریه، باشنده‎گان شهر حلب این کشور ادعا می‌کنند که آتش‌بس در این کشور مرده‌است و شهر آنان تنها می‌توانید ناباوری حیرت‌زده را بیان کند.
ابومحمد، باشندۀ حلب گفت: «من نمی‌دانم که آنان از کدام آتش‌بس سخن می‌زنند؟ این‌جا آتش‌بس وجود ندارد.»
At the same time about the continuation of the cease-fire talks with world powers in Syria, Aleppo, the country's residents claim that the ceasefire in the country is dead and their city can only express disbelief, stunned.
Abu Mohammad, a resident of Aleppo said: "I do not know of any cease-fire they speak? Here there is no cease-fire. "
A 40 year old male shopkeeper said, "do not stop firing rockets and that is like World Wa

From google images:






Syrian Aleppo before the war



If you live in the the United States or in the Russian Federation, consider how the two nations may learn how to trust each other enough to stop the slaughter is Syria.




An irrelevant post script: Write to Secretary Kerry urging him to deny extradition of Muhammed Fethullah Gülen g]to Turkey.


Per Wikipedia:

 Gülen teaches a Hanafi version of Islam, deriving from Sunni Muslim scholar Said Nursî's teachings. Gülen has stated that he believes in science, interfaith dialogue among the People of the Book, and multi-party democracy.[12] He has initiated such dialogue with the Vatican[13]and some Jewish organizations.[14]
Gülen is actively involved in the societal debate concerning the future of the Turkish state, and Islam in the modern world. He has been described in the English-language media as an imam "who promotes a tolerant Islam which emphasises altruism, hard work and education" and as "one of the world's most important Muslim figures."[15][12]

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