Posted on 11/12/2021 4:59:53 PM PST by MtnClimber
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Islamist ambitions seem to be seeking an international role in post-U.S. Afghanistan in alliance with the Taliban, Qatar, Pakistan and Malaysia. The trouble is, Turkey, among the new sharia alliance in the making, is the only country with institutional ties to the Western world.
Biden has weakened himself and his country so badly that the superpower was reduced to the point of being blackmailed by NATO's only Islamist member. Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has made it clear: "If the U.S. is to be in the Middle East, it must cooperate with Turkey."
Afghanistan is not Erdoğan's only pro-sharia ambition after the U.S. withdrawal... Turkey ramped up its drone attacks on Yazidis in Iraq's Sinjar district..... "The Turkish drone strikes increasingly threaten to undercut refugee repatriation inside Iraq and create space for the Islamic State to regroup, as the most effective Kurdish groups fighting ISIS are Sinjar's grassroots Kurdish and Yazidi militias," warned Michael Rubin in the Washington Examiner.
Erdoğan's Islamist, neo-Ottoman ambitions are now taking a pro-sharia turn. That is bad news for the region to Turkey's south and east. Worse, it is a slow-fuse time bomb for the West.
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Miss Trump yet?
E-Dog symbolicly removed his riding glove, smacked Biden in the face with it, dropped it on the ground and yelled to Biden: “Pick it up. Now!!” ..and Joe Biden creakily bent over, picked the dirty glove off the ground and handed it back to E-Dog. “Here’s what you just dropped, Sir!”
There is the EU, soon the The America’s economic trade zone, then ones led by China, India, Russia, possibly an Anglo’s National Zone, and then the possibility that Iran or Turkey gets their own sphere of economic control before the trade zones are ironed out - would a Muslim Trade Zone work or would Asian-Pacific nations organize a regional Viet Nam, Thai, Island chain with Japan and Korea?
The Turks need another Mustafa Kemal.
Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has made it clear: "If the U.S. is to be in the Middle East, it must cooperate with Turkey."
The proper response? It's not the same response as my preferred response. ;^)
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