Posted on 09/03/2015 8:49:55 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
Once NATO’s formidable eastern anchor, Turkey is increasingly becoming a major problem for Washington policymakers and a contributor to the Mideast chaos. The change is all the remarkable since at the outset of the Obama Administration, the President saw then Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as one of his closest international friends. And, indeed, in 2009 Obama went to Turkey to make the first of two Mideast seminal speeches offering apologies to the Muslim world for what he saw as past U.S. mistakes with an invitation for cooperation. But in late August Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter publicly was calling on now President Erdogan to control the border, the long border that they have with both Syria and Iraq. It’s overdue, because it’s a year into the campaign [against Daesh, or ISIL], but they’re indicating some considerable effort now, including some — allowing us to use their airfields. That’s important, but it’s not enough.
If truth be told, it took nine months of torturous negotiations to get Erdogan’s permission to the use NATO bases in Turkey for the relatively feeble American bombing campaign against Daesh, now considered a threat to stability in the region and rapidly becoming a coordinating body for worldwide Islamic terrorism. Traffic through that border has included volunteers for the Daesh [ISIL] forces and a flood of Muslim refugees crossing into Greece and the EU...
...Since Obama’s visit, however, Erdogan has taken Turkey down a divisive path breaking off Ankara’s longstanding military alliance with the Israelis. Erdogan has permitted Hamas, the Palestinian group controlling Gaza which Washington calls terrorists, to operate out of Turkey, and Erdogan has made outrageous anti-Semitic remarks picked up by sympathetic media.
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Erdogan is also bombing the one the one group that enjoys success against ISIS - the Kurds.
We should be keeping the Turkish air force out of the theater on threat of destruction.
I think Erdogan is the one behind flooding Europe with Muslim refugees.
ISIS is Erdogan’s creation.
Why would anyone be surprised that Obama is on cozy terms with a Muslim troublemaker?
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