Has the US only now understood that Assad is the head of the problem?

Turkey's clear and resolute stance against the US announcement that it will take steps toward forming a security force in Syria is being watched with interest and admiration around the world. The very clear inconsistency between what the US has said and what it has done in Syria since the start of the crisis is likewise being noted. That it has crossed the oceans from 5 thousand miles away and is cooperating with a terrorist organization that carries out acts against Turkey, its closest ally in NATO, of which it is the founder and largest partner, puts the US at the top of the list of untrustworthy and incomprehensible countries.

It is impossible to make sense, in its own words, of what the US has wanted or wants in Syria thus far. It led the coalition formed to overthrow Assad together with the alliance of 120 countries called the "Friends of Syria", but when this coalition came to Syria it suddenly forgot why it had come. In place of Assad it began to busy itself with DAESH, which ostensibly Assad had put in front of himself.

Of course, if we believe this scenario...

Even if the outcome looks exactly like this, it is hardly reasonable to accept that the US has really fallen to the point of playing an extra in the game Assad set up. Besides, if such a thing is possible, the US itself would be one huge lie.

The US is so much in the wrong that, against it, Turkey shows that being right can in itself be a big enough source of power. It showed the power born of sheer rightness a short while ago with its struggle against the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Now it shows it with its extremely justified stand against the arming, with US support, and transformation into an army, right on Turkey's border, of the PKK terror that has inflicted great suffering on the country and its people for 35 years and cost over fifty thousand lives. The US has neither an argument nor a reasonable cause with which to explain this policy to the world, nor any benefit to offer the peoples or the peace of the region as a justification for doing so.

By contrast, Turkey does not oppose the formation of this terror army only because it poses a threat to Turkey. This army also poses a great threat to Syria's existence, unity and future. On this point Turkey has made not the slightest change in the position it announced from the start. Syria belongs to the Syrians, and Syria's territorial integrity cannot even be made a subject of debate.

Turkey's interest in Syria is solely for the benefit of the Syrian people, yet a threat directed at Turkey from Syrian territory also gives Turkey a natural right of defense. Besides the Syrian people, Turkey is paying the bill for the civil war in Syria. The three and a half million Syrians it hosts in fact give Turkey more right than anyone to speak about Syria. Despite this, Turkey hands this right over to the Syrian people and wants to make the Syrian people the sole authority in determining Syria's future.

That is why, with Russia and Iran, it has insisted on the withdrawal of all foreign elements in Syria, all three of them included, and on an agreement to leave Syria to the Syrian people.

Turkey's resolute stance is also heard and taken seriously from the US, of course. That is why statements came one after another to the effect that Turkey's concerns are understood and that steps will be taken to address them.

First, the US State Department spokesperson stated that there are no DAESH elements in Afrin, that therefore they are not supporting and will not support the PYD elements there, thus indicating that a possible Turkish operation could be met with understanding. Then US Secretary of State Tillerson said that what they are doing on the Syrian border cannot be understood as "creating a security force", drawing a sponge over all the statements made so far. On the other hand, as a justification for the US presence in Syria from this hour on, when DAESH is almost finished, it first put forward the mission of "preventing the resurgence of DAESH", then said that the Assad regime is a tool of Iran's influence in the region and that Assad is the main cause of the emergence of DAESH and the other terror elements. This statement can be understood as the US having revised its goal in Syria. Of course, on condition of not trusting this statement in any way. Because Turkey had been saying from the start that Assad is the main cause of all terror formations.

The US policy of forcing everyone to focus on DAESH was simply a diversion of the target, and it was quite clear that it would have no function other than keeping Assad in power. Surely no one would believe that the US has only just understood this.

In an atmosphere in which new strategies are now being announced to take measures against its revival, we all watched together, not much more than a month or two ago, how DAESH militants were evacuated from Raqqa to be moved to another place under US-PYD control.

The US's injustice, out of proportion to its material power, is dragging it into inconsistency and powerlessness. If it continues like this, its material power and armed superiority will not save it, and it will inevitably be dragged rapidly into exhaustion.