{"id":3883,"date":"2016-06-20T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2016-06-20T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T21:41:33","slug":"the-enemy-of-my-friend-is-umm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/20\/the-enemy-of-my-friend-is-umm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enemy of my Friend is .. Umm …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tensions have continued to grow stronger between Turkey and the United States because, as AL-Monitor<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a>, this:<\/p>\n

A photographer for\u00a0Agence France-Presse<\/a>\u00a0posted photos of US special forces soldiers fighting alongside the Kurdish People’s Protection Units<\/a> (YPG) near Raqqa<\/a> wearing the Kurdish army\u2019s patch on their uniforms on\u00a0May 27. The\u00a0YPG is considered a terror organization in Turkey, but not by the United States and its allies. US support for the YPG in its fight against the Islamic State (IS)\u00a0has been a point of growing tension between the United States and Turkey. As more photos and videos started circulating on social media, the\u00a0public reaction<\/a>\u00a0in Turkey snowballed as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason for the anger?<\/p>\n

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Their importance\u00a0goes beyond just spontaneous outbursts of anger. There is a strong undercurrent of resentment and anger,\u00a0particularly among\u00a0Islamist and ultranationalist groups.<\/p>\n

Although no\u00a0prominent members of Muslim organizations would signal overt support for IS, their resentment toward\u00a0the United States has grown loud and clear after these photos. Ibrahim Sediyani, a journalist and prominent writer, was the lone voice of dissent\u00a0among those\u00a0contacted by Al-Monitor. Sediyani said,\u00a0\u201cThe YPG is not attacking Turkey, and the United States and others have repeatedly told Turkey they do not consider the YPG a terror organization and will continue to support the YPG in its battle against IS<\/a>. So what is the big deal about the patches, which is just a standard procedure in the field?\u201d<\/p>\n

Other pundits would not agree. Murat Ozer, chairman of the nongovernmental organization\u00a0Imkander, told Al-Monitor,\u00a0\u201cRemember the photo of knocking down Saddam Hussein\u2019s statute with its face wrapped with the US flag? That photo remains in the minds of Iraqis not as the liberation of Iraq from dictatorship, but as a sign of the US invasion of Iraq<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several other opinions are expressed, I suspect more reflective of internal ideologies of the organizations than reality on the ground. Still, this serves as a warning about the difficulties of having a coherent foreign policy. I’d hate to imagine Trump – or any of his proxies – trying to figure this mess out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tensions have continued to grow stronger between Turkey and the United States because, as AL-Monitor reports, this: A photographer for\u00a0Agence France-Presse\u00a0posted photos of US special forces soldiers fighting alongside the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) near Raqqa wearing the Kurdish army\u2019s patch on their uniforms on\u00a0May 27. The\u00a0YPG is considered \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}