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.

Check out Kurdish YPG forces combatting Islamists in Syria's Aleppo - ARA News. 

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.

From Residents of Aleppo: Syria cease-fire dead

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]

Clinton should disavow the Syrian No-Fly Zone and support Syrian Kurdistan

From a New York Times article today:

In October, Mrs. Clinton announced that she favored a no-fly zone to create “humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air.” She has said little about the proposal in recent months, and there is no sign that it has gained any traction in the administration.

The proposed “no-fly zone” would cover territory now occupied and governed by Syrian Kurds and territory the Kurds intend to conquer from the Islamic State, creating a contiguous stretch of land in Syria that would form a basis for a Syria Kurdistan, or at least a self-governing autonomous province within Syria.  

A no-fly zone administered by Turkey or NATO would decrease Kurdish chances of a independence.  Syrian Kurdish independence is the one thing of value that might come out of the ShrineHorror.  I would object to it and hope Ms. Clinton comes to rethink the project, once the she becomes president.  

A “realist” view supports the no-fly zone.  See The Realist Case for a No-Fly Zone in Syria | Foreign Affairs.  Perhaps Ms. Clinton is a "realist".  I hope she is not.  Obama is not.   The "realist" approach to foreign affairs is not realistic.

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The Syrian Women Warriors are especially effective against the Islamic State, whose treatment of women prisoners is especially inhumane.

The Warriors are multiethnic, nonsectarian, feminist, democratic,and do not discrimination the base of race, gender, or religion.  The are by far the most effective ground troops against the Islamic State and deserve America's full-throated support, even to the point of risking war with Turkey.  They are the one good thing about war.

In short, they hold political positions now cherished by Americans except by the now-notorious Republican Party since it has chosen to be headed by bloviating Donald Trump.  The Warriors