Turkey’s not gonna like that.
Do we give a flying - whatever - WHAT Turkey thinks at this moment?
They have aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, and are very much interested in re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate, as this fits right in with their world-view of the reincarnation of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey is no longer a secular state.
And the Peshmerga would make a FINE mercenary army, as long as the support keeps on coming.
But just maybe, the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, does not WANT to play this particular chess piece.
How well do the Peshmurga and the PKK get along? I can’t believe Obama would do anything to hurt the communist PKK?
Turkey? Ya think? The Kurds with real weapons and plenty of them has got to be chilling Erdogan’s spinehole. Before this is all over I can see the Kurds getting a piece of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and northern Syria with a narrow path to the ocean. This is a litle detail that Attaturk overlooked when the Brits broke up the Ottomans. The Kurds have always been friendly to US and would be a great ally in the ME. We should help them form up all we can, in part, as a message to the rest of the ME buttdraggers to try to get into at least the 20th century.