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Turkey joins fight against ISIS by attacking Kurds

What is going on here? We certainly can use all the help we can get in the fight against ISIS but not at the expense of friends helping us already. I discuss this craziness in my column at Townhall. The Kurds are the only actual friend America has in the Iraq/Syria/ISIS zone. The powerful affection … Continue reading "Turkey joins fight against ISIS by attacking Kurds"

BY Jim Hanson · @uncle_jimbo | July 29, 2015

What is going on here? We certainly can use all the help we can get in the fight against ISIS but not at the expense of friends helping us already. I discuss this craziness in my column at Townhall.

The Kurds are the only actual friend America has in the Iraq/Syria/ISIS zone. The powerful affection they have for the United States dates to the 1990s when we protected them from the depredations of Saddam Hussein with no-fly zones and a deployment of Army Special Forces on the ground. President Obama has done almost nothing to help them since taking office and now seems to have given Turkey a green light to attack them. This is a major mistake that must be rectified immediately.

This seems to be a naked play by Turkey to get permission to take care of the potential Kurdish state that would include a bit of Turkey. The Turks don’t want to do too much to make ISIS angry or they may start see more attacks from them inside their own country. Also the plan being floated by Turkey and discussed with NATO for an ISIS-free zone in Northern Syria suffers from a major problem. The Syrian group tah Turkey wants to run it is affiliated with al Qaeda..

I discussed all of this last night on Al Jazeera in a surprisingly reasonable forum.

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