Update On The Mideast: Focus On Afrin -- The City, Not The Nose Spray

From "Mideast On The Brink" (linked at the sidebar at the right) was this linked post:

March 10, 2016: end times for the Caliphate (ISIS); excellent update of the current situation in the war against ISIS.

Now that ISIS has pretty much come to the end in the Mideast, there is a new focus and a need to update the players and objectives. The WSJ has a nice update today: why Turkey says it is ready to go to war with Syria over Afrin. If Turkey thinks the Kurds are an existential threat, it shows just how weak militarily, spiritually, morally, and culturally, Turkey really is.

Finally, a Mideast name we can spell, pronounce, and remember: Afrin.