Loading ...“Second, Turkey, a NATO member with a huge army, is right next to the war-town Syria and Iraq, where the jihadists operate. Tarpley asks the important question: why cannot the Turkish Army come into the lawless Syrian and Iraqi territory and simply wipe the jihadists off the face of the Earth in a matter of weeks, especially if the United States and NATO were so keen to destroy the Islamic State?”
Seems to me the reason would be that Turkey doesn’t want to get in a nasty war with a bunch of crazy jihadis who well might destabilize Turkey itself. That’s not hard to understand.