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Are there "those who force God to Judgement Day" in the US?

We are in days when the support the US has long given to the PYD, a terrorist organization, in order to fight the terrorist organization ISIS in Syria, is being brought to the stage of giving it heavier weapons. These days are in fact days that require us to look once again, carefully, both at the history of the crisis in Syria and at the whole map and traffic of alliances.
The US was the first power to want the change of the regime in Syria, which it had earlier counted within the axis of evil, and the overthrow of Assad. In time, while everyone had focused on the regime and entered an irreparable, irreversible quarrel with it, it suddenly shifted course, abandoning the demand for regime change in favor of the goal of fighting ISIS. The US, which in this move placed the regime almost under protection, was expected to dwell on the possibility that ISIS might in fact be a distracting target supported by the Assad regime itself and pushed forward under its supervision and control. The simplest political reasoning would have expected it to dwell on this possibility. Yet in these days it is understood a little better that, in the production of ISIS, as much as Syria has a share, the US too has a convenience for its own plans.
The US, which claims to see ISIS as a threat to itself from 5,000 miles away and thereby sees in itself the right to implement whatever plan it wants inside Syria, is dragging the future of all the people of the region into utter disaster with all the methods and plans it applies. Just as its earlier intervention in Iraq has dragged Iraq into an environment of maximum insecurity today, has made it impossible for people to live together, and has brought the country to the brink of falling to pieces, the US's interventions in Syria too are candidates to produce the same results. The role of savior, which it took on with so-called bringing of democracy and rescuing from the dictator, making the people of the region beholden to it, dragged Iraq into a complete humanitarian disaster. Now the US is doing the same thing in Syria. Yet, with the humanitarian responsibility its power places upon it, the one it should really have intervened against was Assad, who committed mass massacres against his own people using chemical weapons. The US persistently fled from this responsibility, going to great lengths to avoid intervening directly against Assad, but what it did deepened the problem far more.
Its keeping silent toward Assad and now supporting another terrorist organization in the name of fighting ISIS will not solve an internal problem inside Syria, and is nothing other than a step that will make Syria's partition and the people's living together forever impossible. At the stage we have reached, no plan the US applies in the region contributes in the slightest to the region's peace; every step it takes and everything it does serves nothing but to endanger the security of the region still more and to increase the deaths of civilians and innocent people.
With the fight it is waging against ISIS at present, the US is not solving the problem of terrorism; it is only taking the carrying of terror from one and giving it to another. One must ask why it is doing this. What problem does it solve by doing so? Does it prevent the flow of the blood of children and civilians that flows every day in Syria? No. Does it dry up the roots of terror? No. Has it been able to deal ISIS a deadly blow? No to that as well.
Turkey's relations with Russia, with the countries of the region, with Syria and Iraq are all set to invest in tranquility, trade and peace. For that reason it cares about the integrity of these countries. Syria's territorial integrity and Iraq's territorial integrity are Turkey's greatest sensitivity regarding these countries. Opposing American support for the PYD is not being against the Kurds; it proceeds from the fact that such an investment will open an irreparable wound in the brotherhood, togetherness and integrity of the Syrian people. Supporting the PYD in this way against ISIS is a step that completely destroys the conditions for the Syrian people to live together.
Opposing a terror corridor in Syria is not being against the Kurds; it is only being against the dangerous strengthening of an organization whose link with terror is certain. Today neither does ISIS actually threaten the US, nor do the possible threats arising from the PYD's strengthening reach the US. Yet all these structures that do not threaten the US threaten Turkey in the first degree. The US's giving this support, both in the region and as Turkey's ally by way of NATO, to a terrorist organization that threatens Turkey in the first degree causes it to lose all its credibility and trustworthiness completely. From now on the US cannot convince anyone that it is truly against terror, truly on the side of democracy and human rights.
In essence, with this move, whose result in Syria can be nothing but disaster, as clear as day, the US appears to have in effect fought against Turkey. When it makes such an open attack on Turkey by way of Syria, the consequences of this attack will have targeted the whole Islamic world, and it will be inevitable that within a short time a heavy perception of US aggression and hostility forms across the whole Islamic world.
The US entering such an adventure in the Middle East will undoubtedly lead to very different results in every respect. There is no doubt that these results involve heavy costs for everyone, but before everyone, for the US. In the US, lobbies that "force God to bring about the Day of Judgment," so to speak, have taken control. They think this apocalypse will bring the US a problem-free world domination, but they are badly mistaken.
May Allah make our end good.