see, this is good - this is what i wanted to see, the reason i supported threatening the kurds with turkish force, although i was hoping that the force of threat would have been enough, that it wouldn't be necessary to actually send the turks in to do it. it's the outcome that will best facilitate the return of syrian refugees to the country, the reconstruction of syria's territorial integrity and the establishment of a long-term peace in the region.

and, this could have been avoided if the kurds had just agreed to work with the regime in the first place. but, game theory only works when your actors are rational, and the kurds have been irrational in their insistence on holding on to lands that are not theirs.

this might not have been what trump had in mind, granted. and, i don't care what the republicrats in congress or their saudi controllers think. but, it's a positive step for the region - whether by accident or not.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/syrian-army-deploy-turkey-border-orders-pullback-191013191238367.html

the liberals are supposed to do better than this