Great idea. /sarc
So brilliant that only the echelons beyond reality could come up with it.
ISIS is mostly Sunni, and Al Qaeda is mostly Sunni. I wonder how long it would take for Al Qaeda to negotiate a place in the ranks of ISIS.
We have perfectly good potential allies in the area - the Kurds. We should provide THEM with weapons, and air cover to shoot down any Turkish planes that try to bomb them.
“Could there be a more dangerous and crazy idea?”
Well, the US Senate COULD fail to override the certain veto of the refusal of Congress to support the “agreement” that puts Iran on the high road to foment WAY more unrest in the Middle East, with the huge infusion of cash they will be getting very shortly. And shortly thereafter, the introduction of Iran’s own domestically produced nuclear weapons, resulting on a “first strike” against Israel.
“Nuclear envy” is already a force of international and internal policy in the other countries of the Middle East.
I thought of the Kurds, too. Arm the Christians, if they want it.