US Intervention in Syria at Crossroads

Click here to access article by Daniel Lazare from ConsortiumNews. 

Lazare gives an excellent geopolitical description of the current situation in eastern Syria in the wider context of relations among the US and Middle Eastern countries. Of direct personal interest to me was his implication that the Syrian Kurds are actively collaborating with the US to establish their own independent territory.  

(Here and here are two additional maps regarding the area which he refers to in this analysis.)