[Texas Fossil]

Very good article.

Caroline Glick is a great addition to the Breitbart Staff.

[marron]

The U.S. didn’t penalize Turkey for its effective sponsorship of ISIS. For years, the Turks permitted ISIS to use their territory as its logistical base. ISIS’s foreign recruits entered Syria through Turkey. Its terrorists received medical care in Turkey. Turkey was the main purchaser of oil from ISI- controlled territory and there were repeated allegations that ISIS was receiving arms from Turkey.
And the U.S. turned a blind eye.

The US turned a blind eye because under Obama the US was complicit.

As soon as you knew the Erdogan family was re-selling ISIS oil, you knew the game. But the press never mentioned this during 8 years of Obama. We knew it here, because of the variety of sources that get circulated here, but I doubt one person in a thousand knew it in the country at large.

Its strange to listen to the talking heads prattle on in effective ignorance of what they are talking about, strange but normal. I suspect most FR folks here know what I'm talking about. If you haunt this site you normally know more than about anyone in the televised press.

[RoosterRedux]

Caroline Glick is PM quality.

[lowbuck]

Very solid analysis. Ms. Glick has got this guys number:

"as Erdogan has gradually transformed Turkey from a Westernized democracy and a core member of NATO into an Islamist tyranny whose values and goals have brought it into alliance with U.S. foes Iran and Russia and into cahoots with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and ISIS."

At Sunday dinner last week with the German relatives, I wondered how long it would be before a few TOW anti-tank missiles and stingers got tossed into the mix and the Turks were given a bloody nose. According to this the Turks are much weaker and inept than I thought. Time to get the popcorn. Thanks for posting.

[taildragger]

"last November, Assistant Undersecretary of Defense for International Affairs Heidi Grant simply let it be known that Turkey’s decision would have consequences for its planned purchase of 100 F-35s."

Hallelujah!

Is she a closet Freeper and has she been reading my post for they past 2 years? Seriously I have been on a screed to cancel their F-35's, IMHO they have gone to the dark side, no freakin' way they should have them...

It is about time and I hope it happens and we buy the 100, whether you think it is a toad or not or like me it needs wing area, we need new fighters, crank up the production line, just shift them our way.

[MrEdd]

Not allowing US Troops to fly over Turkey during the ‘90 to ‘91 war made it clear Turkey was not really our ally.

Some people are glacially slow.

[colorado tanker]

At one time Turkey had a first class army, but Erdy gutted it to eliminate any political opposition.

Ataturk was a military leader and was in the leadership during the Turkish War of Independence. Historically, the army stepped in when the political parties went off the tracks. It was the most trusted institution in Turkey. I believe Erdy faked the coup so he could gut the army and insure he would have total power.

[WatchungEagle]

No, she is a neocon who opposed Trump at first and then argued that neocons should support Trump to influence him from the inside. She is a classic neocon with everything that entails. Her goal is to twist the focus of the Trump administration away from immigration restriction and to military intervention in the Middle East.

We don’t want a war in Syria to support the Kurds, that’s a neocon goal that has nothing to do with nationalism or putting America First.

Get US troops out of Syria and stop interfering with the legitimate Syrian government re-establishing control.

[mrsmith]

Informative BUT... "Turkey moves further and further into the Russian-Iranian camp " is nonsense. China is the key.

Iran and Trukey want to provide China a southern route that bypasses Russia. Russia doesn't want that.

Note the gap Afghanistan poses between the southern green lines. Without that gap China can ship it's goods straight to Europe and much of the mid east.
China desperately wants Yuan spent on oil to come back- to be spent on Chinese manufacture.
Note the Kurdish area is also a chokepoint.

Erd (who is a transitional leader until a Chibese puppet replaces him) proffers to subject the Kurds by force for China. That won't happen.

Turkey is lost to China, though a wise leader would position it between the West and the East, that's not happening.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I agree. But at some point we are going to have to kick them out of NATO.

[x]

The Ottoman Empire, as Turkey was called a century ago, was long known as "the Sick Man of Europe" to cartoonists.

[BeauBo]

“Very good article.
Caroline Glick is a great addition to the Breitbart Staff.”

This was an excellent article.

NATO members see the increasing enmity developing under Erdogan. Not only are Incirlik’s role in NATO and Turkey’s future F-35 purchases in doubt, but so is their future purchase of Leopard tank upgrades from Germany.