Posted on 11/29/2015 9:14:23 PM PST by fluorescence
The Obama administration is pressing Turkey to deploy thousands of additional troops along its border with Syria to cordon off a 60-mile stretch of frontier that U.S. officials say is used by Islamic State to move foreign fighters in and out of the war zone.
The U.S. hasn’t officially requested a specific number of soldiers. Pentagon officials estimated that it could take as many as 30,000 to seal the border on the Turkish side for a broader humanitarian mission. Cordoning off just one section alone could take 10,000 or more, one official estimated.
It’s unclear how Turkey will respond. Turkish officials said they agree that tighter border control is necessary, and have begun implementing some measures. They suggested that the Pentagon troop estimates are inflated, but declined to give a number of their own.
In return for doing more to fight Islamic State, Turkey is seeking more financial help from Europe to deal with its 2.2 million Syrian refugees, as well as support for a safe zone in Syria—an idea that has been shelved by the Obama administration as too risky and complicated.
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No. He just wants it to look like he and Erdogan will seal the borders to keep out terrorists and oil smugglers. They have no intention of doing so, just want it to look like they are.
Obama tells Turkey to do it, Turkey starts working on it. Meanwhile new routes and new tankers will be set up to continue business as usual.
So he tries to erase our American borders, but wants to dictate to Turkey how to run their borders.
So he tries to erase our American borders, but wants to dictate to Turkey how to run their borders.
Except for ISIS oil trucks. After all Erdogan's son has $800 million more to rake in.
If Turkish troops and armor move across the border, they better have a truly superior air cover.
Hell will rain down upon them.
And there's NO WAY NATO will bail them out.
Nothing? We are helping them, without doubt. The Turkish Hitler wants to restore the Caliphate, which is exactly what Obama al-Husseini wants.
The hypocrisy is just staggering, isn’t it?
Sadly, no.
Seal our borders!
Turkey and Seal sound great for dinner...
I wonder if Obama is even smart enough to realize the irony of asking Turkey to seal it’s southern border from people moving across it....
Ha...if Obambi doesn't....Trump certainly will.
We urge Obama to seal OUR border!
Seems like he is always lecturing us on subjects he is grossly incompetent at, or knows nothing about.
Yep! They’ll only let the oil in...that ISIS stole.
Bwahahahahahahahaha! Rotflmao!
Of course not, it i$ ju$t an excuse to pi$$ away more tax dollar$
Ya think!?
This action will seal half of the Kurd fighters from the others. Then the Turks can shoot North at them.
Turkey can move its troops and armor into Syria at its peril.
Article 5 doesn’t cover an invasion force and the Russians would like nothing better than some payback for back shooting their aircraft.
How is Turkey then to get the oil harvested by ISIS? Aint gonna happen!
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