Turkey is secretly supporting ISIS and funding them. They are turning a blind eye to the ISIS fighters who are going to the battlefield through Turkey. Here is some information about the Turkish support for ISIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant#Allegations_of_Turkish_support Putin is right. I support whatever he wants to do against them. What do yall think?
America was funding ISIS until about 6 months ago. Saudi still is, yet any American President will still be on his knees with Middle Eastern dick in his mouth whenever anyone from the House of Saud comes to visit. Go figure.
These psychopathic thugs are being used to oppress/spread terror, sell weapons, and steal resources from sovereign states.
` The U.S.'s Middle East involvement and the consequences thereof, can be squarely placed on the shoulders of the president and both parties in congress....and after that, the American citizens who voted and supported those elected officials. Both parties have blood on their hands.
Would just “attacking Turkey” actually improve the situation? A few disparate air attacks isn’t going to prevent the kind of activity being alleged and would only serve to push more Turks towards ISIS rather than against them. It would take some kind of invasion and complete control of Turkey to achieve anything and if the US had the political will for that kind of thing, ISIS wouldn’t be an issue in the first place.
Let's see, one NATO nation attacking another NATO nation - not going to happen. At least not without very serious blowback...
So you think the US should just unilaterally attack another NATO member? That's a pretty stupid idea.
Then maybe you could persuade the idiot that we have for a POTUS to develop our own petroleum resources rather then buy in the Middle East.
With the established world power/economic structure, everyone is pretty much locked in at the current level of chaos. There is NO solution, this being "the way of the world". The U.S. and Canada flooded the petroleum markets, driving the price of crude down. That had repercussions all over the place. The U.S. can't withdraw from the world oil market without inciting further imbalance. We're already on the brink of WWIII. Anything we do against anyone has to be through a proxy conflict, where we goad lesser players into doing our dirty work. No-one is "clean", and nor can anyone be, because every Nation is vested in this "way of the world".
Turkey is sheltering 2 million Syrian refugees just as they sheltered millions of Iraqi refugees in Gulf Wars 1 and 2. I think you should ignore propaganda about Turkey. - - - Updated - - - During the Obama administration the US has the highest rig count its had in nearly 50 years... and, surprise, the oil business is not controlled by the President or the US government. - - - Updated - - - During the Obama administration the US has the highest rig count its had in nearly 50 years... and, surprise, the oil business is not controlled by the President or the US government.
Please, he's been an enemy to the petroleum industry since his first day in office and I guess his veto of the recent pipeline is just my imagination. He only hates the nuclear and coal industry worse.
where are all the anti war people we saw during the Bush era? It's like WWIII is about to break out and there cool with it because Democrats are running it.
We are buy less oil from OPEC the last 7 years than we ever have. Most oil imports to the US come from Venezuela and Canada. Maybe you should learn something about the oil industry before you blame Obama.
Please, it's a commodity and moves as such. Rigs are different from wells and take years to develop. Maybe you should learn something about petroleum trading.
Yes oil is fungible but the US isn't buying from OPEC which is cheaper than Texas sweet or Brent.. There is a glut of oil in the market.. That's why domestic producers are laying off oil workers.
But it wouldn't be if we used our own. It's also traded, moved and refined via the most inexpensive route, which is most often defined by distance over water as a benchmark.
