Anyone else alarmed by the rumors that Turkey is planning an invasion of Northern Syria because of the success that the Syrian Kurds are having over ISIS? Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears hellbent on stopping the Syrian Kurds from controlling even more of Syria's northern border. It's strange that our supposed ally did nothing when ISIS was slaughtering people and even attempted to hold back crucial help in the battle for Kobani but now wants to go in.
It's time that the West wakes up to the fact that it's not worth trying to keep this country as an ally when the people running it have done far more to help ISIS than to harm it. If they do invade we need to start hitting Turkey with major sanctions to start crippling its economy and to also eject it from NATO. They seem to want to play the game of taking advantage of good relations with us (trade, military support, etc) but do not want to do anything to help us.
Here's a country that watched ISIS behead Westerners and watched them encourage attacks on our soil and then stood in our way at every turn in our battle to destroy ISiS. It's pretty obvious who our real allies are and who we need to start isolating and weakening in order to stop the growing threat of militant Islamic fundamentalism. It's time for our leaders to wake up and take off the kid gloves and start acting like the powers they are because it's obvious that nobody respects or fears us anymore.
Obama needs to become the leader that we need and stop with the half measures and trying to win the support of every country. I may not be a fan of George W. Bush but I do think he was right when he said "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists". This goes for the countries helping the al-Nusra Front in Syria as well, that support needs to end now and the al-Nusra Front bombed out of existance.
