President Obama's strategy to date is exactly correct.

October 8, 2014
By Mark Lowen

Could Turkey be about to return to the bad old days of armed conflict with the Kurds? (click here)

Troops on the streets, curfews for the first time in 22 years, protests in almost 30 cities and state buildings attacked - the situation is dangerous and escalating fast.

Some of the fighting is among Kurds, between Turkey's Islamist Hezbollah group - which backs Islamic State (IS) - and supporters of the PKK, the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is vehemently opposed to IS militants.

But the main protests - and the fiercest anger - are directed at the Turkish government.

Kurds feel Turkey sees them, rather than IS, as the real enemy.

They are furious at Turkish troops blocking them from crossing over into Syria to fight with the Kurdish militia there, the YPG....

American Armed Forces, such as the Marines and Army, are not lackeys for a Middle East coalition with divided priorities.

Turkey isn't interested in participating in the Syrian civil war. The Kurds maybe angry over Kobane, but, this is the paradox created by the Islamic State. The Islamic State is fighting Assad and his forces and the Kurds. It is the best of all worlds for Turkey.

Americans are in a political season. It is time they come to terms with the war mongering and crying about the southern border. 

Picture USA troops deployed into Iraq fighting at the side of the Kurds while destroying ISIS. Now, enter Turkey. Who is fighting who? 

This is all nonsense. The USA southern border is faced with some of the most violent organizations in the world, namely the Latin America drug cartels and yet for the most part the USA is only annoyed by undocumented WORKERS coming over the border. There is little in the way of drug cartel wars coming to the USA, spilling over it's border, while at the same time Mexico has an active war with these same cartels.

Now, since "W"'s illegal war has resulted in the sectarian division of Iraq and wars within Iraq to maintain the lives of Kurds and villages along the Euphrates River the USA is suppose to return to do what exactly? The USA is suppose to enter into an ENDLESS POLICING of the Middle East. I don't think so.

Turkey is NATO. Turkey is our first priority, not Iraq or Syria. The very best that can happen here is for the coalition to continue to degrade the infrastructure the Islamic State relies on to advance their violent society. The people within these countries have to ultimately decide to defend their people and their land. We can't do that for them. We can support their efforts, but, we can't forever fight a war with so many oppositional priorities. It is ridiculous to consider.

The air strikes are working. While the Islamic State is already degraded of sophisticated weapons thanks to "W" it is also scattered to hide away from the efforts of the coalition. 

In the video released by the FBI, the Islamic State assassin proudly pointed to a building once considered the Syrian Guard's quarters. It was full of holes in walls due to the attacks of the Islamic State. Those holes in walls were made with USA tanks and mortars. Really terrible from most view points. But, how is the Islamic State going to rebuild that structure to use for their own guards? It can't. It can only fight a war without end. Any structure the Islamic State attempts to build will be knocked down again and again until it's fiscal resources are depleted. 

The Islamic State is already defeated, they just don't want to admit it so they continue to produce films that are somewhat identical to Latin American Drug Lord videos.

Enough. The coalition currently at work to degrade the Islamic State are doing exactly what they are suppose to be doing. On the other hand, the USA Republicans are pretending they know better than the President.