Mid East politics explained

[BillB]

This is the best summation I have seen:

[planosteve]

You know it's totally nuts when the only person that makes sence anymore is Joe Biden!
"Ain't it a bitch!"

[BillB]

It all comes from electing people to run out foreign policy who don't know what they're doing.
G. W. Bush is the chief culprit and Obama is close behind.

[GRANDPA]

I'd say Obama by the nose & pulling ahead now.

[planosteve]

It looks like the onlyperson in the administration for this Syrian bombing policy is Obama. My guess is It will be history right after the November election.

[Bob Of Burleson]

Biden was dead-on about Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The guy is so close to being an extremist Islamist that his prayer rug rolls out when it sees him coming.

He's the one who did away with the generals who kept the country secular and who advocates clothes baggage for women. The only thing that keeps him off the ayatollah ledge is the fact that many Turks like Western ways — at least in Istanbul and the other large cities — and throw a fit when Erdoğan pushes the religious thing too far.

But he's in a bind right now because Islamic State is so much further to the right than he is that it endangers his regime.

Stay tuned.

[Bob Of Burleson]

And now the Turkish Kurds are miffed because Erdoğan won't allow their fighters to cross the Syrian border to assist their beleaguered forces in the town of Kobani, which is about to fall to Islamic State militants. U.S. warplanes are blasting the heck out of Islamic tanks and guns, but ISIS has a foothold in the city and is turning the fight into a street war where air power is no good.

Meanwhile, Erdoğan says he won't let the Islamists take Kobani because of its strategic border importance, but the Kurds say they don't want the Turkish military in their town.

What to do, what to do?

[Dancer]

And now the Turkish Kurds are miffed because Erdoğan won't allow their fighters to cross the Syrian border to assist their beleaguered forces in the town of Kobani, which is about to fall to Islamic State militants. U.S. warplanes are blasting the heck out of Islamic tanks and guns, but ISIS has a foothold in the city and is turning the fight into a street war where air power is no good.

Meanwhile, Erdoğan says he won't let the Islamists take Kobani because of its strategic border importance, but the Kurds say they don't want the Turkish military in their town.

What to do, what to do?

Small, well placed nukes.

[GFB]

And now the Turkish Kurds are miffed because Erdoğan won't allow their fighters to cross the Syrian border to assist their beleaguered forces in the town of Kobani, which is about to fall to Islamic State militants. U.S. warplanes are blasting the heck out of Islamic tanks and guns, but ISIS has a foothold in the city and is turning the fight into a street war where air power is no good.

Meanwhile, Erdoğan says he won't let the Islamists take Kobani because of its strategic border importance, but the Kurds say they don't want the Turkish military in their town.

What to do, what to do?

Small, well placed nukes.

Hmm..I was thinking large, numerous, randomly dispersed nukes.

What was I thinking?