Posted January 30, 2018 2:31 pm by Comments

By Pat Buchanan

U.S soldiers execute a fire mission to support Iraqi security forces during the Mosul counteroffensive in northern Iraq, Dec. 24, 2016. About two months later, Iraqi forces with coalition assistance have launched the operation to liberate western Mosul -- the last ISIS stronghold in the city. Army photo by 1st Lt. Daniel Johnson
U.S soldiers execute a fire mission to support Iraqi security forces during the Mosul counteroffensive in northern Iraq, Dec. 24, 2016. About two months later, Iraqi forces with coalition assistance have launched the operation to liberate western Mosul — the last ISIS stronghold in the city. Army photo by 1st Lt. Daniel Johnson

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week’s end, and NATO engulfed in the worst crisis in its history.

Turkish President Erdogan said Friday his troops will cleanse Manbij of Kurdish fighters, alongside whom U.S. troops are embedded.

Erdogan’s foreign minister demanded concrete steps by the U.S. to end its support of the Kurds, who control the Syrian border with Turkey east of the Euphrates, all the way to Iraq.

If the Turks attack Manbij, the U.S. will face a choice: Stand by our Kurdish allies and resist the Turks, or abandon the Kurds.

Should the U.S. let the Turks drive the Kurds out of Manbij and the entire Syrian border area with Turkey, as Erdogan threatens, U.S. credibility would suffer a blow from which it would not soon recover.

But to stand with the Kurds and oppose Erdogan’s forces could …Read the Rest

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