We just sat through days of gasbaggery at the U.N. about globalism, multilateralism, international frameworks, blah blah blah, and once again Syria proves the only thing that matters is whether the U.S. spends money or puts its soldiers in harm's way.
U.S. forces withdraw from an engagement the rest of the world apparently assumed would last forever in a small patch of bloody Syrian land, and the vaunted "international community" instantly collapses into a useless neurotic heap.
Even the trans-national organization Turkey belongs to, NATO, seems to have no influence, nothing to say. All that mattered was American blood and muscle. Everything else is just posturing on America's dime. We support all these organizations whose only "power" is hectoring us.
How about all those wonderful Middle Eastern organizations that spend all their time whining about the Palestinians and criticizing Israel? Any of you lot going to step in and protect the Kurds from this impending "genocide?"
Hilariously, nobody is even asking for the opinion of the government of the country Turkey is about to invade, or the Russians who propped the dictatorship up. We're supposed to stabilize northeastern Syria while Bashar Assad pays off Moscow and Tehran for saving his regime.
Any of you European superpowers feel like taking a break from demanding the U.S. commit economic suicide in the name of climate change and stepping in to protect the Kurds? If all that's needed is a tripwire, why can't France and Germany send in a few guys to be the tripwire?
We were supposedly fighting the Islamic State with a huge international coalition. Where's the rest of the coalition? What have they done, other than saddle the Kurds with all the captured ISIS fighters they are understandably reluctant to take back?
All this talk of globalism and international legitimacy has once again been exposed as hooey. The only thing these vaunted global parliaments and commissions are good for is telling the United States what it "must" do. Only the U.S. actually DOES anything.
And when we them, our allies disappear in a puff of smoke. We have to twist their arms to the breaking point to get them to defend themselves against China or take the Iran threat seriously. The world's worst actors have as much sway in globalist orgs as we do, if not more.
The U.S. is expected to fight and die to keep dozens of ancient tribal wars in a holding pattern so the globalists can attend fancy summits and talk about how much nicer the world could be. And then we're supposed to import those warring tribes as migrants and refugees!
The Kurdish situation is a perfect illustration of how globalism is poor substitute for nationalism. If the Kurds had a nation-state of their own, they would be both responsible for their collective actions and respected for their sovereignty.
Instead the Kurdish situation is a mess spread across multiple countries and mixed into the savage Syrian civil war. Globalist promises don't mean anything because they all boil down to "we'll demand the U.S. protect you forever." There is no Plan B if we don't.
If the U.S. is going to finance everything and fight every war, we don't need globalist orgs and multinational committees. What value does NATO have to us if it can't stop a member from conducting a genocidal invasion? Why should we listen to any more U.N. lectures? /end
