Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Unpleasant as it may be for many, the current trajectory of the war in #Syria will require the US to work with the #Damascus government to keep the country from becoming an even worse terrorist breeding ground. When we overthrew Saddam we destroyed the military too. The result

2. was #ISIS and chaos on a massive scale. #Geneva process when accomplished will create a democratically elected Syrian government. It will still have to fight the terrorists that #Turkey & Qatar finance & arm.

#SDF is not a separatist force. They are a loyal opposition force

3. Loyal to Syria that they fight to defend. The goal of a federal Syria is the principal part of SDF's ideological thinking that ties them to Abdullah Öcalan. The federal system is not the PKK's ideological creation. It's America's. Local governance brings stability in diverse

4. political systems. People in Wyoming would not tolerate police forces shipped in from NY.

#Idlib is not hopeless. By US & Russia ending Turkey's maligned influence, SDF can assist in establishing an Idlib Sunni Muslim majority federal state. Conservative Islam can

5. exist in a free democratic Syria within the limits of the law. But violence including against women and jihad are antithetical to a democracy and must end. Groups like ISIS, Al-#Qaeda and their affiliates who refuse to end the violence must be stamped out and US, Russia and

6. Syria must join in that effort.

US precision bombing is far more effective than the criminal use of barrel bombs and dumb bomb attacks carried out by Assad and Moscow that do more to fuel the flames of jihad. Assad must realize that he has to win an election to survive.

7. Russia must realize that to maintain its Mediterranean bases it must support the Geneva process and be seen as a positive force. The Syrian people in the coming democratic system will decide who their allies are. Russia must begin to advance the goals of the SDF for a

8. federal system or, in time, they will be driven from Syria by the vast majority of Sunni's who will no longer tolerate minority Shia Alawite rule forced upon them by the @KremlinRussia_E and Tehran.
@POTUS @SecPompeo @EsperDoD @JZarif

9. Winter is coming to the #Kurds, #Christians and #Arabs made homeless by the Turkish invaders. Any world leader who supports Turkey's #genocide will be charged as a war criminal.

The time for peace in Syria has arrived. And the fist step is for Turkey to leave Syria, or be

10. economically sanctioned as the terrorist affiliate apartheid nation it has become under @RTErdogan, a war criminal. He does not deserve to be honored with state visits. He needs to be charged and arrested along with any of his jihadist AKP who dare set foot on US soil.

11. But for today, he must fully withdraw from Syria or Turkey will pay a price that they no longer have the ability to pay.