The build op of this fight is very interesting. The courage and the moral strength of the people of Kobane was very important; but they also use the media especially Twitter very very effective. Over the summer they build a strong following on twitter, effectively using the brave kurdish women as 'poster girls'. It worked as a strong contrast to ISIS propaganda, and in fact forced USA into doing something. In the first weeks of the american engagement it was clear that US military wasn't really committed. But when the stalemate continued, and the corporation for better, they realized, that the ISIS forces here was an easy target, and it in fact was ISIS who was locked. - Of course one could easily argue that Kobane has been a very expensive place to kill ISIS; but when ISIS continued to pour people in, it just continued. One could wonder why ISIS didn't give up. - Oh, I forgot to mention it has been a PR disaster for Turkey and Erdogan. When you put a picture of 3 smiling YPG/H girls with kalashnikovs in the sunset up against Erdogan's angry face , you have to be Erdogan not to see something is wrong.
To many speculations, it could be a good cop, bad cop play, who knows. It's diplomacy. And of course there's an advantage in being 5-6 against 'one'.
Secondly France had had their problems with Iran, remember the Sarkozy Ahmadinejad discussions.
The build op of this fight is very interesting. The courage and the moral strength of the people of Kobane was very important; but they also use the media especially Twitter very very effective. Over the summer they build a strong following on twitter, effectively using the brave kurdish women as 'poster girls'. It worked as a strong contrast to ISIS propaganda, and in fact forced USA into doing something. In the first weeks of the american engagement it was clear that US military wasn't really committed. But when the stalemate continued, and the corporation for better, they realized, that the ISIS forces here was an easy target, and it in fact was ISIS who was locked. - Of course one could easily argue that Kobane has been a very expensive place to kill ISIS; but when ISIS continued to pour people in, it just continued. One could wonder why ISIS didn't give up. - Oh, I forgot to mention it has been a PR disaster for Turkey and Erdogan. When you put a picture of 3 smiling YPG/H girls with kalashnikovs in the sunset up against Erdogan's angry face , you have to be Erdogan not to see something is wrong.
To many speculations, it could be a good cop, bad cop play, who knows. It's diplomacy. And of course there's an advantage in being 5-6 against 'one'.
Secondly France had had their problems with Iran, remember the Sarkozy Ahmadinejad discussions.