Posted on 11/19/2015 7:20:05 PM PST by Lorianne
In the wake of the murderous attacks in Paris, we can expect western heads of state to do what they always do in such circumstances: declare total and unremitting war on those who brought it about. They don’t actually mean it. They’ve had the means to uproot and destroy Islamic State within their hands for over a year now. They’ve simply refused to make use of it. In fact, as the world watched leaders making statements of implacable resolve at the G20 summit in Antalaya, these same leaders are hobnobbing with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a man whose tacit political, economic, and even military support contributed to Isis’s ability to perpetrate the atrocities in Paris, not to mention an endless stream of atrocities inside the Middle East.
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ISIS is an enemy of the Kurds. Turkey is an enemy of the Kurds. So Turkey is simply acting under that age-old theory, The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend.
The stadium full of Turks roared their support to ISIS when a moment of silence for Paris victims was attempted. That says a lot. ISIS can’t continue to survive without Turkey.
because Erdogan is an evil son of a Goat
Earlier today I discovered the unexpected answer in another thread
Turkey, and unidentified non-muslims (Soros?) are surreptitiously brokering stolen ISIL oil from Syria through Turkey, fraudulently identified as Iraqi oil!
Whoever is transporting the oil should be sunk, or boarded and seized; but that's a whole other verboten subject.
I dont think they have much of a problem with Christians dying either.
see obama with his stupid grin shaking ergoden’s hands.
disgusting.
Turkey should not be in Nato.
it’s insanity.
you are 100% correct.
That's a key point right there. Reagan would have told Turkey: You want to be in NATO, you assist the Kurds. Period.
And if Turkey chooses to leave NATO, and throw us out of our airbase there, fine. I'm sure Israel has a base we could use instead.
The Russians are saying that they are going after the trucks that have been transporting the oil out of Syria to be refined in Iraq. They claim that 500 trucks have been destroyed. The question is, why not destroy the facility in Iraq? And, why hasn’t US air power already deprived ISIS of their economic life line and their ability to fuel their war machine?
@#$@#$ their airbase. You’re right.
How many thousands or maybe tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have come and gone freely and went on to kill 10s of thousands.
What good does an airbase do in enemy territory.
and they ARE the enemy.
Erdogan is an Islamist.
He’d like to be the new Caliph.
“There is no radical Islam, there is only Islam.” Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan
The question....”Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?”....
Because Turkey’s Erdogan has been buying the oil from ISIS. Simple...thus funding ISIS unquestionably.
Turks are Muslims. Muslims kill “infidels”. It’s in their Koran.
So kill the bastards who kill in the name of Islam. Period.
Sick of them!
Yeah, Turkey is buying it, but, how the hell, after all this time, is it getting refined in Iraq to fuel their vehicles?
Incirlik is a very important base in the Eastern Mediterranean, but that is not what makes Turkey crucial to NATO. Turkey controls the only outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, including the narrow Bosporus River and the Dardanelles Strait. These two strategic choke points comprise the Russian Navy's only access from its warm water Black Sea ports to open ocean. With Turkey on our side, the Russian fleet is essentially bottled up. But with Turkey in control of the current Muslim "migrant" invasion of Europe, the future of NATO appears to be in serious doubt.
Read a previous thread source that explained they were taking out only the parts that were easy to rebuild and not destroying Syria’s infrastructure.
Erdogan is not averse to the establishment of the Caliphate by ISIS. He thinks that Turkey, as the natural seat of the Caliph, would simply absorb the ISIS construction and bring the Caliphate back to Istanbul where it belongs.
Evil son of a Donkey. In Turkish the term that is used where we would say SOB SODonkey only they take that as a serious challenge and will fight you if you call one that.
There was a picture a few years ago of Hussein in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul with a group of Turkish dignitaries. If one asked a Turk who was not familiar with the faces which one was an American he would not have guessed. He fit in perfectly.
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