Posted on 11/25/2015 6:28:57 AM PST by Trumpinator
Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?
David Graeber
Last modified on Thursday 19 November 2015 12.04 EST
Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on ErdoÄŸan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the ground
How could Isis be eliminated? In the region, everyone knows. All it would really take would be to unleash the largely Kurdish forces of the YPG (Democratic Union party) in Syria, and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ party) guerillas in Iraq and Turkey. These are, currently, the main forces actually fighting Isis on the ground. They have proved extraordinarily militarily effective and oppose every aspect of Isis’s reactionary ideology.
But instead, YPG-controlled territory in Syria finds itself placed under a total embargo by Turkey, and PKK forces are under continual bombardment by the Turkish air force. Not only has ErdoÄŸan done almost everything he can to cripple the forces actually fighting Isis; there is considerable evidence that his government has been at least tacitly aiding Isis itself.
It might seem outrageous to suggest that a Nato member like Turkey would in any way support an organisation that murders western civilians in cold blood. That would be like a Nato member supporting al-Qaida. But in fact there is reason to believe that Erdoğan’s government does support the Syrian branch of al-Qaida (Jabhat al-Nusra) too, along with any number of other rebel groups that share its conservative Islamist ideology. The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University has compiled a long list of evidence of Turkish support for Isis in Syria.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
ISIS is just a tool (muscle). Need to identify who is behind it - who is funding and pushing it. Russia says they have a list of 40 people who are funding ISIS. Those people should be tracked down and liquidated.
Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre.
The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the [Katyn] massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash
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April 2014...
Did Putin Blow Up the Whole Polish Government in 2010?
A Second Look
A plane crash at Smolensk in Russia four years ago wiped out the Warsaw leadership. It used to be seen as an accident. Now, after Putin's games in Ukraine, people aren't so sure.
Four years ago this week, Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash near the Katyn Forest in Russia where he was flying to honor the 22,000 Polish officers, lawyers, priests and professors slaughtered there by the Soviets 70 years before.
Ninety-five other military, political and public figures including his wife died on that plane.
One of the more heartbreaking details to emerge was that First Lady Maria Kaczynska's body could be identified only by her nail polish and the inscription inside her wedding ring.
Less than two years before the crash the late president had given a speech warning that if Russian aggression was not stopped in Georgia, which Russia had invaded, it would extend to Ukraine, the Baltics, and possibly Poland as well. "We are here to take up the fight," he said. And many Poles still believe that their president died in the cause of that effort. Physicist Kazimierz Nowaczyk is one of them. ..."
(BIG SNIP)
He makes his case at the link...
Did Putin Blow Up the Whole Polish Government in 2010? A Second Look:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/11/did-putin-blow-up-the-whole-polish-government-in-2010-a-second-look.html
Turkey is furious with Russia because it has gone to war with ISIS. And not a phony war such as the Obama regime has engaged in with ridiculous rules-of-engagement that guaranteed ineffectiveness.
We should NOT stand with Islamist Turkey.
What does this have to do with Turkey and ISIS?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And Turkey is jihading you
Obama probably green lighted the hit on Russia to prevent France from joining Russia against ISIS.
You will recall that Turkey refused to let the US and NATO cross their territory or airspace to resupply US and NATO troops in Afghanistan during UN and NATO operations there.
Fortunately, Russia allowed and assisted the US using Russian territory, airspace and highways.
I did a search and did not see it.
ETL spamming again and writing up the gay keywords.
The Turks are not Islamic terrorists. The Turks are Islam. Are the Turks using Islamic terrorists to advance their political cause? No doubt the Iranians are using terror to advance their political influence.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013
Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.
Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece
Pretty simple answer: Thry are making 50c on the $ to sell it. They are making as much money as ISIS and thy need it. So they are probably, behind the scenes, asking for some sort of compensation and aren’t getting it.
Hence the Turks are Islamic terrorists. Iran is not funding ISIS. Turks are it seems.
It' s pretty weird that Turkey is "defending its borders" when it can't or won't stop the flow of terrorist recruits across theirs. No one is bringing up the hypocrisy of Turkey "defending its borders".
When searching less is more... only search a few words..
Yea, I realized that now. Just the keywords will do it. Thanks!
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