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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 3:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2016 at 3:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
??? It's in my newsfeed, I'm in the USA. Pretty much par for the course in the region - at present- isn't it? Hell, it isn't even a new thing...Turkey hasn't been on good terms /w the kurds at any point in my memory (and vv). Now that they;re talking about keeping their spoils (as in the cities they take in the fight against ISIS)...as a psuedo-kurdistan, it's pretty much a given that turkey will lose their shit over it.
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 3:19 pm
I haven't watched the news since '03.
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 3:19 pm
Title is a little bit and intentionally provocative. Because noone so far picked up on it. It doesn't matter if Turkey is on good terms with the Kurds. If we are out to fight ISIS, we bloody well need the Kurds. Even more so, since they are the only ones capturing settlements occupied by ISIS and because we know shit about all the other obscure groups and their ultimate goals.
So Turkey is basically fucking the combined goal right now. But that doesn't seem to be of any interest to the American public. Maybe so because there have been some news these last few days of the American government giving Turkey carte blanche for doing what they're doing. If true, and I have no reason to doubt our more serious networks, this is the equivalent of fucking themselves up the ass.
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 3:27 pm
It's the kind of thing that's on the major news sites in the U.S., but only if you scroll down past the first page of trump quotes and local shootings.
Erdogan is a rather, how to put this, terrible awful gross person, yes?
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 5:42 pm
People in the middle east killing each other is not news, in the sense of "dog bites man is not news....man bites dog IS news."
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Yes, you're right. of course. That's not newsworthy. A NATO member state and supposed ally in the fight against ISIS attacking the one and only faction that had some success isn't newsworthy at all. Let's hear it for international stupidity and the craving to be fucked up the ass by a wannabe dictator.
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RE: Not headlineworthy in the USA?
August 28, 2016 at 6:40 pm
I've seen reportage of it ... But then, I only get my news online.
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