and the reason why the U.S. has to keep boots out of harms way.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and who knows for sure who else, are balking at helping the U.S. defeat ISIS because that will assist Shia Iraq, Assad (Alawites are a form of Shia), and Iran.
The U.S. and Iran are still such enemies that we cannot cooperate.
Russia is balking at supporting anything that does not help Assad and Iran, and besides, aren't we still upset with Russia for violating the sovereignty of the Ukraine and their terrorist act of shooting down the Malaysian Air 777.
A WSJ writer correctly points out that U.S. soldiers fighting ISIS on the ground would be magnet for Muslims all over the world to rush to Syria to kill Americans. And a Judeo-Christian assault on ISIS would allow them to make it a holy war akin to the Crusades increasing the attractiveness for disaffected Muslims (of which there are millions) all over the world to rush to Syria to kill Americans.
For now, all the U.S. can do is help from the air and giving adequate weapons to the Kurds. Of course, Turkey is not happy with that and we need Turkey to stop the flow of funds to ISIS by buying their oil production and the flow of fighters across their border.
How do we bribe Turkey into doing the right thing is the question?
That folks is a conundrum!!!
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