In Perspective, Planet: Unfortunately, once again we’ve allowed a sad event!

[Asher Kelman]

What a sad realization!

The Kurds have been bombed daily for years. However they are not on the list of “victimsl” that suffer for which Western progressives rally, march and protest!

Copyright Times of London​

The Kurds, like the Muslim Rohinga, at the hands of the Buddhists, the Christians in Darfur at the hands of the brutal Sudanese Muslim horseman, the Cambodians at the hands of the Khamir Rouge have no champions. We have a ridiculous and shameful selective outrage. Only certain favored groups “de jour”, deserve our interest, offense and agitation!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Read more here!

 

[Asher Kelman]

 

[Asher Kelman]

What is amazing is that with the Kurds being attacked from Turkey, the very dangerous ISIS fighters guarded by the Kurds will likely escape as their existential threat is from the Turks now.

Civilians carry their belongings, as they​

flee amid
Turkish bombs, Ras al-Ain, October 9, 2019. AFP​

The United States failed in every agreement with other factions in Syria to be “the boots on the ground” to defeat ISIS. Only when they finally had no other options and finally came, grudgingly, to the Kurds, did they find allies brave and reliable enough to take on the seasoned Isis fighters.

In that effort over 11,000 Kurds were lost in battle, but ISIS was cut down and those caught were imprisoned under Kurdish control.

Now Trump says, “They just fought for their land, that’s all and anyway, they never helped on the beaches of Normandy in World War II!”

How did we reach this state of ignomy where we don’t stand by our allies who have shed rivers of blood for our joint cause against murderous people set on obliterating our democratic and ethnically diverse and tolerant societies, under their black flag!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Actually the Kurds were critical in rescuing the British base in Habbaniya in Iraq in 1942 when a pro-Nazi force tried to take over the country. The key oil country was important to the allied war effort.

Read the Times of London article here!

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

Maybe it is appropriate to link to that thread on the guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan photographed by Joey L.:

Photographer of Interest - Selected by Editor: - Guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan by Joey L.

Joey L., which I have already presented in this forum for his photographs of the Omo Valley, recently issued a series of photographs about guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan, you may see them here with accompanying text. I'll include two for your convenience: And since this is a photography...

openphotographyforums.com

 

[Asher Kelman]

Maybe it is appropriate to link to that thread on the guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan photographed by Joey L.:

Photographer of Interest - Selected by Editor: - Guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan by Joey L.

Joey L., which I have already presented in this forum for his photographs of the Omo Valley, recently issued a series of photographs about guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan, you may see them here with accompanying text. I'll include two for your convenience: And since this is a photography...

openphotographyforums.com

Jerome,

What is it about the Kurd, Darfur or Rohinga people, (with millennia of culture), that blocks “progressives” from caring enough to defend, protest in the streets and advocate for them?

If they were “Palestinians”, Paris and London streets and boulevards would be packed with angry demonstrators. If they were European Christian, (but not Lebanese), France, The UK and the USA might intervene militarily.

The few exceptions have been Clinton’s attack on Serbia to defend Muslims and a few missiles after the gas attacks on Syrian Sunni Muslims.

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

Wars are always about money. For example, people have public support when they or their close friends have natural resources of interest to us. Conversely, when other people have natural resources of little interest to us but of great interest to their immediate neighbours, there is far less support.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Wars are always about money. For example, people have public support when they or their close friends have natural resources of interest to us. Conversely, when other people have natural resources of little interest to us but of great interest to their immediate neighbours, there is far less support.

Makes sense, Jérôme!

The USA is now overflowing in energy production. We have no need for anyone’s oil!

We just need enough around to keep the price low for Russia so they can’t outspend us. So we do need excess production!

But we don’t need Syria, Iraq or Iran to supply industry in the West!

Still, the Kurds died for our common cause against ISIS.

Asher

 

[James Lemon]

Kurdish militants were paid money and military hardware in exchange for their services. Kurds will be exterminated by the same ISIS if they set them free. US forces will not be leaving anytime soon. They have strategic military bases and airports in northeast Syria.

 

[Jerome Marot]

The USA is now overflowing in energy production. We have no need for anyone’s oil!

We just need enough around to keep the price low for Russia so they can’t outspend us. So we do need excess production!

While the USA is now the top world oil producer (again, as in the 60s), it is also the top world oil consumer and still needs to import 5 millions barrels a day (a quarter of total consumption of 20). And the USA also do not want oil price to be too low or fracking will not break even.

 

[Asher Kelman]

While the USA is now the top world oil producer (again, as in the 60s), it is also the top world oil consumer and still needs to import 5 millions barrels a day (a quarter of total consumption of 20). And the USA also do not want oil price to be too low or fracking will not break even.

True but you also have to add natural gas!

Asher

 

[James Lemon]

All the easy oil and gas in the world has pretty much been found. Now comes the harder work in finding and producing oil from more challenging environments and work areas.
— William J. Cummings, Exxon-Mobil company spokesman, December 2005[79]

And another

It is pretty clear that there is not much chance of finding any significant quantity of new cheap oil. Any new or unconventional oil is going to be expensive.
— Lord Ron Oxburgh, a former chairman of Shell, October 2008[80]

At the end of the day it wont matter what the price is, because it takes energy to produce energy. It will be like having a scooter that holds 5 gallons of gas but the nearest gas station is 7 gallons away.