You have to ask yourself, why would so many in the US and EU establishment shrug their shoulders at a NATO army using "former" Al Qaeda & ISIS warriors to invade part of Syria? Or the prospect of ISIS commanders being handed over to Turkish secret police who'll release them?
my theory is it's just the weird form racism against Middle Eastern people takes: basically, most Euro-Americans consider them a bunch of savages, violent Islamists by nature, & can't imagine anything better. It's the leftists like the SDF who they see as dangerous & confusing 2/
so when dealing w/ right wing extremists, they say, "well what else do you expect? That's just what these people are like. I guess we can ally with the least crazy of them." With ME left revolutions, it makes them panic, it's like they're throwing their world into disarray 3/
I have a Kurdish friend who's tried to describe the feminist & directly democratic experiments in Rojava to members of the Council of Europe & they literally said "we can't support this, ultimately it'll just create more terrorism" - due to the "inevitable reaction" 4/
whereas with Daesh, it was obvious they were self-consciously trying to play with Western images, make themselves into cartoon villains, & say "how over-the-top evil do we have to be before you WON'T play ball with us?" But even then it was only for a few years. 5/
