Turkey has been holding off what it sees as a necessary operation due to pressure from the U.S. With the Democrats’ gratuitous resolution it has apparently occurred to the Turks to question just why it is that they are accepting PPK raids into Turkey at the behest of the U.S. when the U.S. slaps them so. The whole Kurdish showplace of freedom and orderly development in Iraqi Kurdistan has been jeopardized just because Pelosi and the Left felt it necessary to punish Turkey for the unforgivable sin of being an ally of the United States.
“The whole Kurdish showplace of freedom and orderly development in Iraqi Kurdistan has been jeopardized just because Pelosi and the Left felt it necessary to punish Turkey for the unforgivable sin of being an ally of the United States.”
In case you don’t know, the resolution is bipartisan that has many Republican cosponsors and it’s come up every year for many years — and killed every year for one reason or another.
The fact is roughly 1.5 million Christian Armenians were murdered by the Turkish government just for being “infidels,” which Turkey has always denied.
So let Turkey be angry about it. The truth is they need our support far more than we need theirs.