![]() ![]() Turkey just made things still more complicated in this regard. In the Middle East war, a friend in one theater is an enemy in another. Now as then, a one-dimensional military response is doomed to fail, in the view of some very thoughtful heads.Īt least in the Vietnam War, one could distinguish allies from adversaries. The history books are going to call this the war in which more or less everybody fought more or less everybody.įor the Obama administration, the conflict that now runs from Iraq through Syria and (effectively) across the latter’s border with Turkey shapes up as a quagmire at least as bad as the Vietnam mess of the Kennedy and Johnson years. If you applaud the spread of what American colonel-turned-scholar Andrew Bacevich terms “the War for the Greater Middle East,” you’ll have to do so without me. Related: Turkey Denies Turning Blind Eye to Islamic State Countering this menace is an urgent task. There is no question that ISIS threatens everyone, including most Muslims, and is now destabilizing Turkey’s southern provinces. There’s no simple answer, but on balance, this development offers a little short-term good and a lot of long-term bad. official calls it, a good thing or a bad thing? The Obama administration has long tried to persuade the Islamic government of RecipTayip Erdoğan to get into the fray, but the vital question still needs to be asked: Is this “game-changer,” as one U.S. The war against the Islamic State just widened to include Turkey as a combatant. ![]()
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