© New Cold War.orgManbij, the next target of the FSA
Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) must leave the northern city of Manbij as it is going to be the next target of Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.
"Manbij is not a place for the PYD or YPG ... it belongs to Arabs," Erdogan told reporters as quoted by Anadolu news agency.
On Monday, Turkish presidential adviser Ilnur Cevik said that Turkey plans to end its Euphrates Shield operation in Syria after capturing Manbij from Kurdish militants.
The operation by Turkey and FSA fighters began on August 24, 2016. The city of Jarabulus in northern Syria was taken before Al Bab was liberated. Erdogan said that the aim of the operation was to clear the region of terrorists and make it a safety zone for refugees.
Needless to say, he was soon faced with a choice: Either continue to pretend that he was more powerful than the sun, the moon, and the force of gravity, or to drown.
Wet and humiliated, so we are told, he chose not to drown but to flee the inevitable.
Erdogan will soon be faced with the same choice: Run and hide, or die messily.
(PS: The story of King Knut was first related by Henry of Huntingdon in the 1100's, and was actually the opposite of what our history books relate. In the original story, Knut was pious and humble, and the episode was intended as a demonstration by him to his arrogant barons that humans could not resist the laws of God and nature, not even if they were the King. In any case, this too is a lesson that Erdogan would do well to ponder.)