Posted on 09/11/2014 11:39:07 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Yesterday, Barack Obama stated, “Turkey needs to be involved in coalition against ISIS.”
On Thursday Turkey said it will not allow the US to use its airbases to fight ISIS.
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what if Obama is actually "one of them" .....sure seems like it by the preponderance of evidence
Every move Obama makes aids the enemies of America
from the perspective of Obama's stated goals (to fundamentally transform America) He is an absolute success
Atatürk!
^Obama’s elections is a result of those eight solid years of safety. Selfish ingrate liberals.
Yes, DoughtyOne, exactly. He is still an adolescent, but also a narcissist with Marxist ingraining (EXTREMELY dangerous combination) who never had a good solid fatherly upbringing, learning about responsibility. When they elected him and he infested the Oval Office, I immediately said, with ice cold blood coursing though my veins because of my great fears of what he would do with all that power, "it is like a 5 year old flying a 747 solo". The only thing I was wrong about the damage he would do to the Constitution and the Republic, as greatly as I feared him, was that he has been even far more damaging than I imagined he would be.
May God help us out of this national nightmare.
Secondary reason is that the Kurdish in Northern Iraq and Western Syria might incite the Kurdish in Southeast Turkey to do what should have been done post World War I : Form an independent Kurdish state.
FWIW, there is a Communist faction (PKK) among the Kurds, but the vast majority practice a sane brand of Islam.
Yea seriously Turkey is fighting ISIS on its own, by supporting the Kurdish last I heard, this is just a big diss to Obama.
So much for all is words and our sacrifices(under him) to ‘win the worlds love’. Nobody respects an incompetent self-absorbed and ideologically obsessed idiot.
Was thinking also that this Turkey denial is exactly what Obama wants. Obama loves his ISIL brothers.
While it's usually good to see Obama fall flat on his face, the more serious side of this is the fact that an increasingly Islamized Turkey is likely to be less likely to cooperate with other NATO members against any Muslim targets.
I watch Al Jazzera news sometimes and they are very clear in reporting that the Turks are denying this because a large segment of the Turkish public support ISIS and Turks in significant numbers are crossing over the border to fight with ISIS. American news outlets say nothing about this.
Bingo.
The Iranian regime doesn't trust Obama or its admin. One because they believe Obama (along with the Saudis and company) hasn't given up on his original objective of overthrowing Assad. Other is that Obama admin and the US in general are seen to be on the side of Sunnis and particularly Sunni states such as S. Arabia (Iran's main rival in that region). Therefore, by default Islamic State (IS) too, who are sunnis, even if a few members of the Saudi ruling class fear IS might directly attack the House of Saud & other (leaders of) Sheikhdoms in the Gulf region. But until that actually happens, the Iranians would at least assume IS can negotiate with the Saudis & the leadership of the Gulf states. Whereas IS will absolutely not do so with the Iranian regime.
I don't think the Turkish govt for now has a problem with the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan. After all, Kurds are relatively a minority ethnic group in the Arab world, and Turkey, should 'push come to shove'.
Iran has a large Kurdish population too. But ethnically the Kurds share deep roots (racially, culturally and linguistically) with most Iranians, and have ALWAYS allied with Iran (even the shia Islamic regime, although Kurds are sunni) when fighting the Arabs or the Turks.
Overall, I think most, if not all, sunni Islamic countries (Arab and Turkish) are reluctant and fearful of taking part or overtly supporting an attack against IS, because many of their citizens are either pro-IS or can become so, should a direct attack take place. Would be hard to contain their own people.
It's a very tricky situation and multi-layered. But a main issue, for now, for the Iranians and to some extent Turks, is that of trusting the motives & intentions of the US and Obama administration in particular.
Its = his admin
How much “aid” does Turkey get from us???
If its a dollar, that’s way too much...
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