[Ynet] Turkey has asked the United States to step up air strikes to keep Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bandidos bandidos holy warriors from seizing a key Syrian Kurdish border town, a senior Turkish official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
"Our government and our related institutions have emphasized to US officials the necessity of immediately ramping up air bombardment in a more active and efficient way," Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said, according to comments published on the website of the television channel AHaber.
| I was under the impression that Turkey was known for its terribly fierce and competent military. Why, then, do they not mount their airplanes and fly some bombing sorties themselves, instead of hiding behind the infidel Americans? |
Because it's easier to get Uncle Sugar to spend the money and blood. Bombs and missiles cost money, as does aircraft maintenance.
Plus Erdogan has been playing both sides in this game. Getting the Turk military involved would make it harder for him to canoodle with the ISIS while they kill all the Kurds. |
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