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Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?
Guardian UK ^ | 18 November 2015 | David Graeber

Posted on 11/19/2015 7:20:05 PM PST by Lorianne

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To: arthurus

Where he always belonged.


21 posted on 11/19/2015 8:56:06 PM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Erdogan most likely does not desire to be Caliph. He might well hanker to be the Sultan. The Caliph only ruled in the first century. From thence he was the authority of religion and what he said went in that area. The Sultan ruled the geography and the society and the presence of the Caliph protected the sultan from attack a little bit. There was always a bit of implication that the Caliph was the hostage of the Sultan and it was not unknown for a sultan to depose a Caliph the Islamic way i.e. by strangling him or, in Mameluke Cairo, by halving him..


22 posted on 11/19/2015 8:58:56 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Always A Marine

Bosporus is not a river. It is a Straight or a Narrows. It is not defined by its flow but by the gap.


23 posted on 11/19/2015 9:00:09 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Lorianne

Because certain connected Turks are making MILLIONS of dollars a week selling ISIS oil, and brokering weapons from Ukraine to ISIS.


24 posted on 11/19/2015 9:22:12 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: huldah1776

They need to stop the actual production of gasoline in Iraq.


25 posted on 11/19/2015 9:34:17 PM PST by Bogie
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To: arthurus

Without any Kurds.


26 posted on 11/19/2015 9:35:47 PM PST by Bogie
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To: arthurus
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.

There they are, in stocking feet. Is that a wog slot machine behind Erdogan?

Anybody know who the black shadow is?

27 posted on 11/19/2015 9:42:37 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Obama is saying, “I once told a lie thiiiiis biiiggggg”.


28 posted on 11/19/2015 9:44:35 PM PST by r_barton
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To: Lorianne

ISIS was in part a creation of the turks’. Where did all those shiny Toyota come from? Look at a map.


29 posted on 11/19/2015 10:09:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: arthurus
Bosporus is not a river. It is a Straight or a Narrows. It is not defined by its flow but by the gap.

You are correct. One would swear it was a river while standing beside it in Istanbul, but it is actually a strait between two seas.

30 posted on 11/19/2015 10:29:44 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Lorianne

He was in Turkey when he was hammering the Repubs.


31 posted on 11/20/2015 12:07:52 AM PST by easternsky
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To: Lorianne

Oil, it’s all about oil and below market prices. Russia is positioning itself to eventually control all the oil, but right now, they are all buying oil from Iraq and ISIS, including Assad,. Assad is buying oil from ISIS.

If they wanted to cut ISIS off att the knees they would bomb the oil fields and cut off their funding. Europe, Russia, Turkey, Syria, all want below market oil and Obama wants cheap oil to hurt the US oil industry.


32 posted on 11/20/2015 12:53:51 AM PST by Eva
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To: Lorianne

Today Putin said that Turkey is protecting ISIS oil because Turkey has made a dal with ISIS to buy the oil.

That is the same thing that I have been saying for weeks. The chaos in the Middle Eadt is all about the oil. It has even been posited hat Obama had a dal with the Saudis to lower the price of oil my glutting the market but the Saufis could not be expected to carry the burden long term, so the Iranians offered a dal to Europe and Russia for cheap oil and ISIS got into the game by stealing the Iraqi oil.


33 posted on 11/27/2015 2:59:48 PM PST by Eva
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