Re:Facebook Said to Block Pages Critical of Muhammad to Avoi...
by mda on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @09:02AM
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" It's not a secret that Turkey is helping IS in the Kurdish regions"
No this is again BS. Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers? BTW SA is not a Nato member you just can not put Turkey and SA in the same bucket.
Re:Facebook Said to Block Pages Critical of Muhammad to Avoi...
by toyg on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @10:41AM
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> Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers?
Because they keep splitting Kurdish territory, weakening Kurdish positions that are instrumental if Kurds are ever to get full statehood -- which would would immediately result in claims over currently-Turkish territory as part of independent Kurdistan. Enemy of my enemy...
> BTW SA is not a Nato member
Not strictly-speaking, but in practice it's one of the staunchest US allies in the region, on par with Israel. The US built a lot of installations there in the last 20 years, then relinquished them to SA and proceeded to sell them Nato-grade weaponry. If shit started to fly with Putin tomorrow, Saudi Arabia would be on NATO's side, no question.
That's not the point. The point is that, from a NATO point of view, they are both necessary allies but also de-facto adversaries on many chessboards. It's not a secret that Turkey is helping IS in the Kurdish regions, for example; like it's not a secret that SA helps radical militias the US reportedly opposes. They simply have different long-term strategic objectives from NATO's, including a different view of the role of religion as instrument of power.