Palling around with terrorists
"Let me be very clear that we flatly reject any notion that the Turks are somehow working with ISIS. That is preposterous and kind of ridiculous. We absolutely, flatly reject that notion."
Map, images from Russian military show main routes of ISIS oil smuggling to Turkey https://t.co/3g1MQxzfNF pic.twitter.com/LSlBFUlgqc— RT (@RT_com) December 2, 2015The Russian MOD presented satellite photos, aerial surveillance videos, and maps demonstrating that the Turkish government - and President Recep Erdogan personally - is receiving hundreds of thousands of barrels of stolen Syrian oil from ISIS terrorists daily.
Here's a video of the Russian Ministry of Defence briefing. Note the clip showing ISIS-Turkish oil tankers freely passing through a Turkish border checkpoint:
The Pentagon spokesman, in the face of this evidence, reaffirmed America's commitment to
"The Turks have been great partner to us in the fight against ISIS. They are hosting our aircraft, they are conducting strikes, they are supporting the moderate Syrian opposition."This outspoken rejection of Russia's evidence clashes sharply with an assessment made last year by US Vice-President Joe Biden. In a speech at Harvard University in October 2014, Biden stated that US allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar were so eager to overthrow the Syrian government that they were ignoring the fact that there were "no moderates in Syria" and continued pouring "hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons" into Syria to support the terrorists.
Have a listen:
"...they [Turkey, Qatar, et al] were so determined to take down Assad, they poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tonnes of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad. The people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and extremist jihadis coming from other parts of the world... who teamed up with ISIS, formerly Al Qaeda-in-Iraq. We could not convince our colleagues [Erdogan et al] to stop supplying them."Biden's comments are instructive for two reasons:
1.) It illustrates that US policy-makers don't actually give any credence to the distinction of 'moderate rebel' versus 'terrorist'.
2.) It illustrates that US policy-makers know perfectly well that its "great partner" Turkey is up to its neck in supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria.
"We absolutely, flatly reject that notion." Go ahead and reject it all you want. Say it ten more times. Scream it out to the press. Shout it and moan a lot, too. Act a little pitiful. Bang your fist down on a table, too, to give your "flatly reject" more emphasis, then, please, go back into your five sided sick shack and prepare for your next "flatly reject," nonsense, like a robotic wooden bird that bursts forth from the door of the cuckoo clock to announce the hour, "Cuckoo, cuckoo, flatly reject, cuckoo, cuckoo."