Some things are better left unsaid. Turkey should have remained quiet and went about its business.
We’ll say what we want. And in psy ops, this was the right thing to do.
“Some things are better left unsaid. Turkey should have remained quiet and went about its business.”
Actually, it is quite clever. By stating the obvious, Turkey makes sure Washington has a strong interest in keeping keep the Peshmerga in line. All in all, a win-win situation for Ankara, as it gets to strike Kurdish opponents and leaves the trickier questions of damage control, political compensation and avoiding Kurdish raids in Turkey at the White House’s doorstep.
I am sure the US Cabinet has seen this move coming from a long way away, but once the green light had been given for the strikes, there was precious little to do...