Posted on 08/11/2016 8:36:01 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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These days, however, the U.S. and Turkey see eye to eye on very little. The two countries are at odds over Syria and the urgency of removing Syrian President Bashar Assad; over support for Syrian Kurds who, in contrast to the Turks, have proved to be reliable U.S. partners in the fight against Islamic State; over the territorial sovereignty of Iraq; and over continuing sanctions on Iran.
Though American officials privately acknowledge that Mr. Erdogan is “erratic,” they have given the Turkish leader extraordinary leverage over U.S. policy. The U.S. fear is that public pressure will result in even less cooperation from Ankara—especially on Syria.
No issue demonstrates the divergence better than the drama over Incirlik air base. This facility, a little more than 200 miles from Raqqa in Iraq and twice that from Mosul, is important to the coalition against Islamic State. But the Turks forced the U.S. into a yearlong negotiation to use the base to strike the would-be caliphate.
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I have never considered the Turks to be a reliable ally. I was at Incirlik in 1982, and I didn’t think much of them.
The USA should not team with countries whose leaders believe in a religion that teaches they should kill us. Just common sense that 0bama does not have.
Let’s cut to the quick: What’s the status of the nukes?
There’s been no new, reliable info in the last week. That is odd.
The vaults could be completely emptied by now, Obama’s gift to the Caliphate.
It seems the failed so called Coup was Erdogan’s Reichstag Fire. He couldn’t have played it any better.
Nothing gets by these guys....
Turkey made that loud and clear at the beginning of PGW-II
This was know after Iraq. Bush should have pulled out U.S. troops, and especially the nukes.
I’d say it’s not an ally at all.
We should have supported the coup.
If it turns out the Obama Regime was behind the coup, how reliable an ally were they?
Why, we did. An Air Farce Col. F. Flaggot was coordinating.
The headline is 10 years late
The only two considerations in an ally are, can they shoot and will they aim at your enemy.
Turkey has always been mushy on the second part.
When were they ever?
They haven’t been much of an ally in a long time if ever.
If I were JFK, I would have just offered Turkey straight up to the Soviets in exchange for removing the missiles from Cuba.
Just common sense that 0bama does not have.
He’s got common sense.....It’s just not your American common sense.
Didn’t we learn this when they closed our northern route into Iraq at the last minute in the invasion? A lot of good men were lost in the extra time it took to push up from the south and not be able to clamp the vise. Screw them.
That is correct, Turkey permanently cut off all surface transport of resupply to US-NATO operations in Iraq.
Apparently we did not learn anything from that action.
Interestingly, the Russian Federation came to our aid and opened their surface transportation highway through Afghanistan to US surface traffic.
Different time, different Russians, I would not.
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