Kurdish groups have thus far stayed out of NATO's destabilization of Syria, US threats to arm and unleash Kurdish groups aims at coaxing Turkey to act.
Tony Cartalucci,
Contributor
Activist Post
The violence in Syria has been predominantly carried out by extremist groups,
tied to Al Qaeda, and organized, funded, staged, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon's Hariri faction playing a major supporting role. Starting as early as 2007,
it was reported that Syria's notoriously violent Muslim Brotherhood was already receiving support from the West to begin undermining Syria as part of a grander strategy to to break the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah sphere of influence across the region.
The Kurds, occupying territory straddling the Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, and Turkish borders, have for nearly as long, been fighting against Turkish forces, with US-occupied Iraq
hosting several Turkish invasions aimed at crushing alleged Kurdish strongholds. Unlike Syria's battle against admittedly foreign-funded and armed militants, many of whom are not even Syrian, the "international community" has been mute over Turkey's military campaigns against Kurds both within and beyond its borders. And even throughout the duration of Syria's current unrest, Turkey has continued conducting military operations against the Kurds.
Image: The Kurds occupy a region straddling the borders of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. While Kurds in northern Iraq have been relatively co-existing with other Iraqis, enjoying a degree of autonomy, and in Syria enjoying the protection of Assad along with Syria's other minority groups, the Kurds in Turkey have been fighting a decades long battle against the government who has pursued them within and beyond Turkey's borders. If Kurds are armed by the US, they will head to Ankara, not Damascus - thus Washington's latest threat was made toward Turkey, not Syria.
