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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.