Richard Fernandez, PJ Media: Syria Risks Becoming Erdogan's Vietnam
Turkey's border offensive against the Kurds, far from being a blitzkrieg, is limited by the resources available to Ankara's forces. According to DW, its goal is to bring a 15,360- square kilometer swath under its control. "Turkey wants to create a 32-kilometer-deep, 480-kilometer-long corridor (20 miles deep, 300 miles long) inside Syria along the border to protect its security... it plans to resettle nearly 1 million of its 3.6 million Syrian refugees who hail from other parts of Syria inside the 'safe zone.'" But it must do so by installment and on a shoestring.
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WNU Editor: Turkey's border offensive against the Kurds is not Vietnam. But its offensive is
destabilizing the region, will cost a great deal in blood and treasure, and there is going to be blow-back against the Turks in Turkey itself.
