Recall that over the weekend we reported how "
Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
Was Humiliated In Turkish "Appeasement" As Erdogan Bombs US Allies In Syria." Concerned by
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's recent overtures toward Russia, which even hinted at military cooperation between Moscow and Ankara, Biden arrived in Turkey last Wednesday, just as Turkey sent tanks into northern Syria, with nothing but appeasement for the Turkish president whose unprecedented crackdown on human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
has left over 100,000 Turks placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
, terminated, or otherwise "purged" without anything more than an occasional verbal rebuke by the western "democratic" powers.
Meeting with Erdogan and Turkey's prime minister in Ankara, Biden delivered a message of alliance and conciliation: "Let me say it for one last time: The American people stand with you ... Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
was one of the first people you called. But I do apologize. I wish I could have been here earlier," Biden said.
That is all Erdogan needed to hear as he then proceeded to launch a bombing campaign not against 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
holdouts in proximity to the Turkish border - the stated reason for the Turkish incursion - but against his legacy foes, the Kurdish militia, the YPG, which problematically for the US, is part of the broader U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition.
So, less than a week after Biden's attempt to appease Erdogan, earlier today US Slams Turkish Bombing Of American Coalition Partners As "Unacceptable And A Source Of Deep Concern"the United States, now finding itself in the paradoxical position of directly supporting two warring factions, criticized festivities between Turkish forces and some opposition groups in northern Syria as "unacceptable," calling on all armed actors in the fighting to stand down and focus on battling ISIS.