Posted on 10/01/2014 6:47:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My Kurdish friends tell me the situation right now is grim along the Turkish border. The Kurdish fighters have escorted their families across the border from Kobani and are being prevented from returning to continue the fight against ISIS. If Kobani falls, ISIS will be handed a huge swath of territory right on the Turkish border. They say the US air strikes are not helping the Kurds and that ISIS right now has them outgunned and out manned. I have spent a great deal of the past 18 months amongst the Kurds in Turkey.
As a learned gentleman from a Washington think tank specializing in the Mideast peered over his wine glass at the White House Hanukkah party in December he pronounced, “The Kurds are the key to peace in the Middle East.”
It would have seemed radical to others but to my collaborator friend in a project about the Kurds over the past year and to me, it made perfect sense. It was a concept that had been forming in our brains, but we just couldn’t seem to get it into the fontal lobes. Our Congressman friend said, “That’s what you two have been saying for weeks now.” We just hadn’t put it in such blunt terms.
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Our intel guys must know all this. Yet we bomb grain elevators.
A competent American government prosecuting a “war” would hold NATO member Turkey very accountable for its support of ISIS. They would be informed in no uncertain terms that they will be booted out of NATO and that the Kurds who are bravely and effectively fighting ISIS will be entitled to an internationally recognized Kurdistan which would include territory which was once Turkey.
I want to know whether the tanks reported to have been seen on the train from Turkey to Syria with black clad ISIS soldiers were Russian or American built tanks?
Turkey is no ally.
They are helping the enemy.
Is it any wonder, seeing that the ISIS want the capital of the caliphate in Turkey?...............
How many billions of dollars have we given Turkey in the last 20 years? Enough to buy every family in Florida an in-ground swimming pool for their back yard.
It’s time for our military and intelligence agencies to step up and perform the duties they swore to perform. Protect the country!
“It’s time for our military and intelligence agencies to step up and perform the duties they swore to perform. Protect the country!”
The problem is the CIC will not let them to their job.
I’m talking about them doing their job FOR the country. That means against the CIC.
Reagan would have bombed ISIS in Turkey and then gave a speech warning Turkey of their imminent destruction if they did not kill everyone of those ISIS guys inside their border.
Time to destroy some train tracks.
We’d need to seize the nukes we’ve loaned them first...
looks like Turkey has made its choice—they are going with ISIS in their new State. If the war expands—we may have to fight Turks—never a good thing.
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