Posted on 11/27/2015 9:51:59 PM PST by Jyotishi
Turkey is Muslim slime. 99.8% muslim. Erdogan is the worst of the worst. Hopefully, Russia will drop Erdogan like a bag of dirt. I’d be OK with a Russian cruise missile into his private residence.
Scratch a little deeper and you will no doubt find the Saudis and probably the Obama administration as well. Is it all about pipelines? Or about installing some kind of strict sunni government beholden to our "friends" the Saudis? I don't know. But there is no doubt many, including Obama, believe ISIS can be managed for the goal of overthrowing Assad.
The Turkish obama.
They were there to procure weapons.
obama puts muslims way before our country.
I have NO DOUBT ISIS is being helped by Turkey and us and the Sauds.
It is a proxy war with Russia. and it disgusts me. I know what putin is, but right now he is not our main problem and if I were him I would send forces to syria too, well knowing Turkey has delusions of grandeur of a Muslim empire.
Usually, I’m up to par on current events but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what is going on with the Turkey/Syria/Ukraine/Russia drama. I don’t know who the good guys are, the bad guys, or what to make of it. There are a lot of players and a lot of upheaval, with more on the way, it would seem.
I feel the same frustration. Is my own country (or its government anyway) a "good guy?" Or what is the hidden agenda that is making everything seem to tentative and murky?
Just what the hell is Turkey doing in NATO at this point in time? Time for them to be drummed out.
Turkey is a mixed-up deal.
Around two decades ago, I remember this episode unfolding at the US base in Turkey. They had this new NCO arrive with his wife....they were both heavily into Islam. The wife wanted to do the full dress-up deal....with the burqa. The Turkish guards wouldn’t let her exit the base...saying that this was unacceptable garb in the local community beyond the gate.
So, it was a shocker to the husband and wife....Islam-lite was the preferred deal with a majority of Turks. I think if you walk around Istanbul and look at clothing styles of women, the majority don’t wear burqas or conservative style clothing. In fact, I’d take a guess that less than one-percent wear burqas....at least in that urban area.
If you go and hang out at the various resorts along the southside of the country.....you don’t see any real evidence of Islam being practiced.
It’s the middle east, there are no clean hands there.
Obama has us hip deep in this crap and will probably get us in deeper.
Taking old alliances into consideration, Russia is probably the closest thing to a good guy playing this game.
They have ties to Syria that go back to the early cold war days.
Although he was no fan of the dictators that used to run the countries, he said they kept everyone on a tight leash in order to keep what little peace can be kept in an Islamic state.
Careful what you wish for. Turkey is a Nato member state, and the treaty requires that the US to treat such an attack as tantamount to an attack on US sovereign soil: “an attack on one is an attack on all.” Whether the Turkish leader is a jerk does not affect the US government’s treaty obligations.
Nato should have been disbanded in 1991, but it was instead expanded.
Where else could the ISIS-controlled Iraqi oil possibly go? It’s really a no-brainer: it is transported by tanker truck to Turkey. Look at the location of the Batman and Ceyhan refineries.
Certainly the Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians, and Iranians are neither purchasing or allowing trans-shipment of ISIS-controlled oil. Turkey is the only destination for ISIS-controlled oil.
The two major cities ISIS holds firmly could be leveled to nothing in one day. They remain untouched.
Much of what he says puzzles him too. He thinks the regional instability after the removal of dictators and the Arab Spring shtick, is for new western money grabbers who have been setting up shop as arms merchants, oil movers, bribery for passage, and contract Jihadi thugs. The salesmen are folks like Sid Blumenthal with loose political ties to both the Clintons and the Bush families.
From what I understand, crude oil is being smuggled out of Syria into Turkey by the ISIS. ISIS is using the revenue from the oil to fund their military operations. Russia knows that if they destroy the oil tankers trucking oil out of Syria, it destroys ISIS ability to fund their operations. So, Russian jets are hitting these trucks along Turkey’s border. Turkey will try to shoot down Russia’s jets if they can. ISIS oil into Turkey benefits Turkey too. It is the old “follow the money” thing.
Holy Jihad Batman!
Seems like Turkey committed the first act of war.
Obama needs to be arrested immediately for aiding the enemy.
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