Som sagt, om klippet med McCain, man kunne jo bare sagt fra til Tyrkia, så kunne Tyrkia ha konfiskert hele oljetransporten. Det ville vel ikke vært for brutalt?

Men så er det spørsmål om Tyrkia ville ha gjordt noe. I følge kongen av Jordan, Abdullah, er ikke Tyrkia på vår side når det dreier seg om kamp mot islamsk ekstremisme :

"Abdullah said that Erdogan believed in a “radical Islamic solution to the region". He repeated: "Turkey sought a religious solution to Syria, while we are looking at moderate elements in the south and Jordan pushed for a third option that would not allow a religious option.”

The king presented Turkey as part of a strategic challenge to the world. "We keep being forced to tackle tactical problems against ISIL [the Islamic State group] but not the strategic issue. We forget the issue [of] the Turks who are not with us on this strategically."

He claimed that Turkey had not only supported religious groups in Syria, and was letting foreign fighters in, but had also been helping Islamist militias in Libya and Somalia. Abdullah claimed that "radicalisation was being manufactured in Turkey"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...e-report-says/


Ser at Juan Cole skriver i dag :

"Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?

(...)

The 13th Division of the FSA is a “vetted” group that receives CIA-supplied weaponry such as anti-tank t.o.W. munitions, which is to say that the United States is in bed with al-Qaeda in taking al-Khalidiya from the al-Assad regime."

http://www.juancole.com/2016/04/syri...d-with-it.html

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