PYD, or making a hero out of a legionary organization

When the crisis in Syria began, the US's first priority was Assad's departure. This was a priority agreed upon together with its allies. Over time, however, the US began to insistently voice the question of "who" the alternative to Assad was. The very search for a single person as an alternative to Assad was enough to show that the Syrian people would not be taken into account in any way regarding Syria's future.

Accordingly, the search for "a person" as Assad's alternative meant that what was envisaged or deemed fit for Syria's future was, once again, a dictator.

We, for our part, have said from the very beginning that the alternative to Assad must be democracy.

Yet for the US, democracy never seems to have been even an option for Syria's future.

Worse still, judging by the latest situation that has emerged, it is understood that the US drew up and put into effect its own plans unilaterally, without opening them up to its allies in the region at all. In these plans there is no future in Syria that the Syrian people themselves will decide. The US never wants to leave this decision to the Syrian people, and what it sees fit for Syria is either Assad himself again or, if there is to be an alternative, a dictator of the Assad type.

It is also understood that the PYD and YPG occupy an important place in these plans. It is a fact that the PYD is an organization that Assad supported from the beginning and sent into the field after supplying all its weapons. Precisely for this reason, the PYD always did its part and from the outset fulfilled to the letter the tasks it received from Assad. The interesting thing is that ISIS too is in a collusive relationship with the Syrian regime.

After all that has happened, it appears that the US essentially has no problem with Assad or the Assad regime, and that despite all the massacres he has committed, he has still not been written off by the US. Precisely for this reason it gets along very well with the PYD, which has played the most loyal guard to Assad from the beginning. There is no doubt that the support given to the PYD is in itself support for Assad.

In that case the crucial question becomes this: if Assad was this indispensable, why was the US so insistent on mobilizing so many national and international alliances against Assad from the very beginning? Was this the US's intention and plan from the start, or did the plan change in the course of the process and arrive at its present form?

The story the US tells us is that what led to this policy change was the emergence of ISIS and its becoming a priority threat for the US. Upon this, the US gave its primary priority not to the struggle against Assad but to the struggle against ISIS. One thing we frequently hear from US officials is precisely that, in light of this priority, the PYD is the organization that fights ISIS best and that it is therefore supported even though its relationship with the PKK is known.

In fact, supporting the PYD even though its relationship with Assad is known also means indirectly supporting ISIS, because the very reason for ISIS's existence is the Assad regime itself.

This web of relations shows that the US's counterterrorism strategy is nothing but a tangle of contradictions.

Frankly, these contradictions will have no result other than to make terror flare up even more in the region and in the world.

The thesis that the PYD is the force that fights ISIS best is a huge lie that needs the joint work and support of those who make the claim themselves in order to be proven.

Indeed, today the force called the PYD is supported by the seven powers. Russia gives its own support, the US its own, Iran its own, Assad his own, Hezbollah and the Shabbiha militias and the PKK each give every kind of support separately...

The way is cleared for them with air bombardments, with forces on the ground, with tanks, with weapons, and then they are installed in the cleared areas like great heroes.

Meanwhile no help is withheld from them, none of their needs is left unmet. Were it not shameful, the auxiliary forces would come and pull those triggers too, on behalf of the PYD.

Then the PYD, advanced with such difficulty through so much assistance, is awarded the title of "the organization that fights best against ISIS."

Whom are you fooling?

If you load this much power onto a dead donkey, you can produce whatever hero you want out of it.

With so much media power you can turn it into a lovable hero, but you cannot stop its braying.

To date the PYD has not achieved a single success against ISIS on its own, without help from these forces.

In Kobani, while supposedly fighting ISIS, it was able to repel ISIS only because, in addition to all these forces, it received the world's media support and even the help of the Free Syrian Army and the Peshmerga. Later, ISIS's withdrawal without firing a single shot, under air bombardment support, from Tel Abyad and Shaddadi, which it had held for several years against strong resistance from the FSA, betrays the choreographed dance of sham fighting between them, and that the mind directing them all is one...

These days the same game is expected to be played in Raqqa, which ISIS has held for years.

The PYD, marketed as "the force that fights ISIS best" and therefore as a savior hero, has already been written a role to suit the script. Raqqa, which no one has so far been able to take from the ISIS monster, will again be liberated by the PYD forces once all the necessary support has been provided.

Of course, to complete this scenario, we can expect a few scenes to be played beforehand. We may watch images of beheadings, shootings in the head, or perhaps even more creative ISIS brutality.

The truth is that throughout this entire process the PYD is a legionnaire organization fighting against its own people.

With its PKK in Turkey and its YPG in Syria, it represents not the Kurds but only those who hold it up, those who wrote this role for it.

Those who wrote this scenario have hired both the monster and the hero who will save from it.