Target: Iran RGC

Liberating Kurdistan is the answer

    The on-going, low-level war in Rojava has finally made front page news in the United States. On Thursday, an Iranian drone hit a building in a US-led coalition base near the northeastern Syrian city of Hassakah killing a US contractor, wounding another, and sending five US soldiers (out of the 800-900 stationed there) to hospital in Iraq.

    In August we reported on a Turkish drone strike in that same city, but that time a UN-sponsored school was hit four girls were killed and eleven others were injured. The school is about a mile from the US-coalition base the Iranian drone hit last week.

    The US forces said the drone was of Iranian origin. Both Turkey and Iran have very active military industries. Iran claims they have been supplying their own military hardware since 2000. Their drones are increasingly stealthy and dangerous. Retrofitted Iranian drones are what the Russians continue to use to do so much highly targeted destruction to cities in Ukraine.

    This was not the first time Iranian-backed militia using Iranian missiles and drones have targeted and killed US soldiers and contractors on US bases in Syria recently. The New York Post reports “Iranian proxies have carried out at least 78 drone or rocket attacks against US troops in the Middle East” since the beginning of  Biden’s presidency.

    Not all of those attacks have been in northeast Syria and, by the way, this number is only Iranian proxies. Turkish proxies more closely affiliated with ISIS are also active agents fighting the US military and its proxies like the Syrian Defense Forces.

    But this is the one that rung the bell, the gone-too-far bell. It resounded all the way to the White House where, as we reported, President Joe hosted a Kurdistan rite of spring ceremony celebration complete with dancers, just last week. Rojava is in Kurdistan, btw. So this attack hit not only the US-led coalition base, it simultaneously hit Syria, Rojava and Kurdistan.

    President Biden sent the word down to his top military guy US Defense Secretary Lloyd ‘Too Tall’ Austin who did the same until — Retaliation! Two Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sites further south in Syria are missled vociferously. And the voice is very large. As I said, front page news in the US.

    That night experts dba talking heads on TV, said they don’t expect the US to retaliate any further unless provoked, but I wonder. What do we know about Iran right now?

    The Islamic government is under attack by demonstrators around the country, not just in Kurdish Iran. The clergy is against them. The workers are against them. The students are against them. The women are definitely against them. Little children coming up right now are not coming up thinking how great the Islamic regime is. Their numbers are growing and they are not going away. This is leading to something. It’s already a hotspot, with students being poisoned at school, teachers being put in prison, protestors being executed and anger growing everywhere.

   Then there is Iran as International intriguer. Last August we reported about an upcoming meeting between Iranian President Ebrihim Raisi, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. They spun it as a peace meeting. But you can bet supplying drones to Russia was also discussed. Logic tells me, Turkey couldn’t supply them because of their NATO and EU market connections, but Iran could and, as we now know, continues to do so.

    More was discussed than drones, though. As we reported, Putin, Raisi and the Ayatollah were against Turkey invading Rojava, which it has continued to do. Of course, around the same time they were saying this, that Iranian drone killed those kids playing volleyball in their schoolyard in Rojava. This Turkish involvement is a major twist in the already complicated picture.

    Turkey is an active aggressor in Iraq and Syria. By September eight fighters in either Rojava’s Internal Security Forces or the Syrian Defense Force were killed by Turkish drones after Turkey announced it was planning to invade. We documented other Turkish attacks, including a major attempt to free all the prisoners in al Hol, the ISIS prisoner camp in northeast Syria. We learned Turkey under Erdogan coddles and supports ISIS soldiers.

    When I say, we, I mean not only you, semi-autonomous Acorn Archive reader, but we as in the US government, those folks we are sometimes on the side of. Sam knows a lot more than we do about what Turkey does to undermine stability and safety in all the nations of Kurdistan, especially Syria and Iraq.

    The question is what will the US do about it. I say target Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps’ presence in Syria and Iraq. The RGC is aggressively attacking the US-led coalition and them’s fighting words. But limit the fight to this purging which can be achieved most efficiently if led by the Syrian Defense Forces, whose name I would like to see changed to Kurdistan Defense Forces to better fit the job at hand.

    The US-led coalition should be focused on liberating Kurdistan and it should begin with Syria and Iraq. This gives a wholistic sense of completion to the US presence in, let’s face it, Kurdistan.

    When asked about the situation in Syria while visiting Ottawa to try to persuade Canada to get its military more active in world affairs, President Biden said, “The United States does not, does not, I emphasize, seek conflict with Iran. But be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people.”

    In rhe US, the right considers these words of wimpdom. They call this ‘a doctrine of appeasement.’ The NY Post reports Senator Joni Ernst tweeted that Biden’s doctrine in Syria “has cost American lives and emboldened our adversaries.” My answer to that is simple. If Biden wants the right to get more dovish, all he has to do is get more hawkish in Syria.

    Do you remember Mohammed Ali’s ‘rope a dope’ ploy? Biden could use that if he actually wants to get hawkish on Iran. All he has to do is continue to appease on the surface, while preparing for aggression on the down-low. This brings the right to the side we should actually be on, aka Liberating Kurdistan.

    It’s not like me to promote war, but I feel myself doing something like that right now. It must be the old man in me. Sorry, my younger self, wherever the hell you’ve gone.

    Iran is on the verge of being able to join the naughty nuke-capable club. They are not there now, but they are close. The Islamic Republic of Iran is making war against the US through their proxies and through their own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose base in Syria was bombed last week.

    They are making war against their people through their repression, religiously, socially, culturally and economically. Fires are burning, people are dying inside and outside Iran and the perpetrator of this mess is about to get the BOMB.

    The only thing holding the Islamic Republic of Iran in power is the military, and one important wing of that is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. If that Corps were to be subdued, the government of Iran would lose the most important teeth in its bite. But it would still be dangerous militarily.

    According to Wikipedia, the Iranian Armed Forces are made up of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Law Enforcement Force (police). There are 610,000 active-duty personnel and 350,000 reserve in the Army and the RGC alone, not including the police force.

    My ideal solution is a military one, with love. In my solution the goal of our military is to get the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps out of Syria and Iraq. Some would be killed. Others would hie it back to Iran. Still others would be our captives. I would like to see that number as high as possible because they are the ones who when sent back carry with them our minds and hearts.

    It’s like this, each captive would have to swear by Allah that they will no longer bear arms. Then they would be assigned an American family, and would be sent back to Iran where they would keep in regular contact with their American family.

    The family is where the love comes in. It will be watching over the captive to ensure he or she can survive. The family would have access to a survival toolkit especially designed for the situation. This being a US military operation, any tools needed would be shipped to the former captive via US military crafts.  I envision some border concerns, and while important, they are not necessary to go into now, vis a vis, the hows and whys of it.

    The cost of this be a mere nothing in the almost trillion dollar annual US military budget and it would be more than justified by the facilitation of peaceful human relations between regular Iranians and Americans. Enemy warriors would be turned into friends, like swords into ploughshares, but on a human scale.

    Yeah. I think that would be a good first step in liberating Kurdistan. We’ll have to see if the US military is thinking like I am. In my experience, that would be a first.

    Why is it important to know about the Kurds? I could say, because we owe them one. They helped us beat back ISIS eight years ago and now we turn our backs while Erdogan systematically exterminates them. But to me the most important thing is the experiment in direct democracy evolving as we live and breath in the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Its potential is so great, it could, and I’m more and more thinking should, replace American-brand Democracy. It is the template to export as an antidote to the continuing expansion of the China model of illiberal democracy.