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Its very long front with little manpower right now. Still they made good advance in 3 months (more than 1,800 km2 of arable land). If u want fast results u need to send boots on the ground.
Turkish artillery shells Aylan villags in YPG hands:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.524122&lon=37.718639&z=13&m=b
You think they have the luxury to separate, who may and who may not to fight?
Maybe. But they could fight for their homeland.
Syrians don't have any ideology into "being a Nation". They created a century ago out of nowhere, they were in the same country with Egpyt, Iraq and Syria. First, Egypt left, then Iraq left and lost Hatay to Turkish Republic meanwhile their education quality kept low with bad economy.
As a result, they dont have any big "will to die" for a nation that they dont believe. They are much like a group of people trying to survive at any cost.
political islam wiped out the belief in nation state among most syrians
They would die to fight for an islamic project
The only solution right now is creating buffer zones along Syrian border and setting up forces focused on fighting Isil and PYD militias .
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Well, political islam didnt do such thing to Turkish People, hopefully. In Turkey, most religious cities are most Nationalist cities as well lol.
This doesnt work as well. It seems like they are not Nationalist, nor give any value to islam. They instead just run for their lifes like a earth citizen that doesnt support anything and doesnt belong anywhere.
Though Turkey isn't interested in it, I'd say the only real solution is annexing this area as a semi-autonomous state, eventually this is what will happen, I mean even if not now, with this idiotic mentality that they have of 'nation', 'cantons' I'd give them (the kurds) at the most 2-5 years to be wiped out anyway, if not by Turkey, then by Iran, or by any Arab country (take your pick). I really doubt that they will have a "golden ticket" as Israel has, so their best option was and is to integrate into Iran or Turkey in Iraq, but for Syria their options are limited, PYD/YPJ and their PKK connections are their biggest undoing...
That said I would have preferred Syria stayed absolutely as it was before all this crap started, ie. before the US trying to theater a regime change / Arab spring there.. but as they say s..t happens.
The difference between Syrian and Turkish islamists is one thing . For Turkish Islamists , their national identity comes first then religion , while for Syrians its the opposite .
We thought the same about KGR in iraq and they survived for over 2 decades now thanks to American support and destruction of Iraqi Army.
Buffer zones are the only solution to contain Kurdish Cantons until a strong central government recovers in Syria which I dought will ever happen .
The current situation in both Syria and Iraq will continue for decades , these states are actually fake where various ethnic/Sects were forced to live together under the control of strong central military regimes .
After the collapse of Syrian and Iraqi armies these countries will eventually end up being split .
Why not just surround Al-Bab and play the long game?
No supplies coming in from Raqqah or anywhere. ISIS is busy fighting everywhere. No need to take it now.