Syrian Troops 'Re-Enter' Towns After US-Backed Kurdish Retreat
ABC News breathlessly reports Syrian government forces are 'entering' northern towns as Kurdish fighters withdraw, framing it like a shocking new development. What they conveniently omit is the decade-long US policy tightrope walk that left the Kurds, America's most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS, high and dry. Remember when Turkey—a NATO member—threatened to invade, and the US
effectively gave them the green light by pulling support for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)? The SDF, who lost 11,000 fighters battling ISIS, were tossed aside like yesterday's news, paving the way for precisely this 're-entry' by Assad's forces, who were always waiting in the wings. We are told this is a complex regional dynamic, but it boils down to transactional foreign policy
where allies are expendable. One might wonder if the US ever truly intended to support Kurdish aspirations beyond their immediate utility against ISIS. Or perhaps, as history often shows, the 'war on terror' is just another geopolitical chess game where local populations are pawns. The Kurds, once lauded as heroes, now navigate a landscape reshaped by powers far larger than themselves, with their
supposed patrons conveniently looking the other way. How many times must this cycle repeat before the media reports the full, cynical playbook?