A day after hyping the idea that having warplanes fly over the ISIS city of al-Bab, but not bombing them, amounted to a “show of force” in support of Turkey, the Pentagon is now hyping that they’re going to “keep supporting” Turkey in al-Bab, and that might include more than just taking a good look at it while they fly by.
Pentagon spokesman Col. John Dorrian claimed talks “at a diplomat level” are ongoing with Turkey and that the US is prepared to “offer” additional support to Turkey, though no such offer has yet been made, and it isn’t clear what that might entail.
Turkey has been invading al-Bab for weeks, with limited success, and last week openly requested “air support” from the US-led coalition against ISIS forces. The only air support that has happened yet was from Russia, who launched airstrikes against ISIS targets outside of al-Bab.
The sudden talk of doing more, which is to say do anything at all, likely reflects the anger among Turkish officials about the lack of support forthcoming, with both Turkey’s Defense Minister and Foreign Minister suggesting they should expel the US from the Incirlik Air Base over the lack of support for fighting ISIS.
Let’s hope Turkey doesn’t accept the “help.”
The US is ostentatiously not bombing, in a country where they bomb very freely. That message needs discussion.
It’s understandable that the Turks would want assistance against ISIS. They know how dangerous they are, since they provided most of the weaponry ISIS has and provided travel arrangements to most of its personnel.
Perhaps they can now provide targeting information regarding their former clients. I wonder if they still have their cell phone numbers?
WTF you are talking about?
Still you might not even able to correctly prounance Irak ( aeyraacK ) Iran for Aiyran,
But you can prounance Israel or Italy correctly,
you wouldn’t know differences between SHIA and SUNNy and you contribute comment is laughable.
So what just were you contributing yourself with this comment? How would you know how this person pronounces any of these words? At least that person can spell – and I suspect, type – (prounance? WTF indeed.) – which is more than we can expect from you, evidently.
Why don’t you go comment on some other site where nonsense is encouraged?
Mr.Thick Larri ,you needed to learn/ study then you might get qualified to comment, otherwise your comments remind us readings from toilet wall.
Encouraging in that the US is showing itself to be ‘reactive’ to what Russia is doing. Maybe just in time too because Turkey is becoming Nato’s loose cannon!
luv from Canada.
Trump is the nato s loose cannon 😉 not Turkey
Turkey no longer will accept this “help” which looks like more hostile than friendship .