Maybe Joe Biden was right after all.
The NY Times lead story today is “Turkish Inaction on ISIS Advance Dismays the U.S.” The article reads as a laundry list of complaints and reservations U.S. officials have about Turkeys foot-dragging and, in some cases, refusal to do what we want them to.
This comes two days after Joe Biden apologized for saying “It took a while for Turkey, a Sunni nation, to figure out that ISIL was a direct immediate threat to their well being,” during a speech at Harvard.
Now, according to the omnipresent senior administration official, “There’s growing angst about Turkey dragging its feet to act to prevent a massacre less than a mile from its borders. After all the fulminating about Syria’s humanitarian catastrophe, they’re inventing reasons not to act to avoid another catastrophe.” ISIS militants are closing in on the Kurdish town of Kobani, just over the Turkish border with Syria, and there are fears of and precedent for a massacre of Kurds if they take the town.
It sounds like the administration has hopped onto the Biden bandwagon and then put the pedal to the floor.
“This isn’t how a NATO ally acts while hell is unfolding a stone’s throw from their territory,” the official adds.
Ramblings of a Newsie 