War Nerd goes on about how important the CNN war is here, citing videos that may discourage recruits. I’ve seen videos put out by YPG of women fighting in Kobani who can’t even handle a kalashnikov’s recoil. I’ve seen pictures of smiling ISIS jihadis holding the severed heads of young female YPG recruits.

In our backward world, are we somehow supposed to see the side that sends farm girls to die in urban combat to gain western sympathy as morally superior? When PPK operatives hide out in Turkish mountains while hapless girls die for them are we supposed to herald this as progress?

I don’t think the Croats and YPG are remotely comparable. There’s a reason the Peshmerga sent precious few fighters to Kobani. It would be a waste of resources, and the destruction of a YPG force is not exactly a calamity from their point of view. For the Turks, this is the best of all worlds. Let YPG discredit itself and the cause of Kurdish independence by sacrificing Kurds’ daughters on the front lines while the USAF destroys ISIS armor, neutralizing any future threat to the southern border.

As an American, I have to take the Turks’ side here. YPG’s cynical use of western feminism in this “CNN war,” which war nerd seems to think is a good idea, may not rise to the level of ISIS mass murder, but it’s bad enough that it would be for the best if both ISIS and YPG fought each other to exhaustion. Evidently, American officers feel the same way; if they know that some of the supplies they dropped ended up in ISIS hands they must surely be aware that some of the bombs they’ve dropped have hit YPG positions.