After Screwing the Middle East Up — for Seemingly Ever — the United States Is Now Provoking NATO Ally, Turkey

© 2014 Peter Free

 

20 October 2014

 

 

The dance of American dumbasses continues

 

The absurdity of the Obama Administration’s “Forever War” battle plan against ISIL was apparent at the outset. Now, it has gotten worse by alienating our NATO ally, Turkey.

 

We have provoked the Turks by dropping arms to anti-ISIL Kurds in the Syrian border city of Kobane.

 

The Turks — correctly, given the previous history of such operations — foresee that these same arms, often with the same Kurds attached to them, are going to flow across their border to augment an already troublesome portion of separatists and terrorists on their soil.

 

Were the same thing to happen in the United States, you can bet that we would be outraged.

 

 

Caught in the box of weak options

 

I have previously written that it made no sense for Secretary of State John Kerry to diminish the strategic loss that Kobane’s fall would represent with respect to the Administration’s war with ISIL. Yet, it should have been equally evident that irritating an on-the-ground ally in the Middle East was not going to do us any good, either.

 

That there are apparently no good options left, after decades of America’s mostly deadly exercise of stupidity in the Middle East, should not surprise us.

 

What should raise questions is why we continue to be so self-destructively idiotic.

 

 

The moral? — The United States always appears to have an inexhaustible supply of “war-ish” bumbling in reserve

 

Virtually all of our Middle Eastern interventions have been poorly conceived, when assessed in light of their purported justifications. Therefore, we can conclude that American policy is (and was) more immediately about enriching people and corporations that benefit from waging perpetual war.

 

Seen this way, we understand why no one in American leadership gives a stool sample about Turkey’s negative reaction to our terrorist-fomenting actions. Stirring the Danger Pot creates more tumult, war and profit.

 

What could go wrong?

 

Our adversaries’ strategists will confidently be able to predict America’s future course, in any given situation, by foreseeing that we will probably pick the option that is most likely to drain our treasury and public will.

 

Conceptually pertinent here — in the martial arts — one often lets one’s opponent exhaust himself with foolishly contrived and excessive activity.

 

You can bet that the People’s Republic of China is watching with quiet appreciation. Chinese leaders undoubtedly see how quickly and consistently the United States is taking itself out of the Future’s Game. We have been initiating a series of long wars with people that we cannot possibly defeat by using the means that we choose.