Air strikes against ISIS in Kobani are just a PR exercise, Turkey says

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6. Indeed. Sir.

The blather coming from Turkey has gotten strange of late, since Obama decided to bomb ISIS, that's why I'm paying attention to it. Erdogan stopped making sense around the time the Mavi Marmara was raided, but he has parted with reality entirely of late.

One suspects that events have exposed the inconsistencies in Turkey's policies too, specifically with respect to the Kurds, Sir. Since I have felt for some time that Turkey was surprisingly casual about the progress the Iraqi Kurds have made in setting themselves up independently, that interests me. Perhaps Uncle Sugar reassured them the Iraqi Kurds were going to stay part of Iraq, and now that it is clear that is not so, they feel disgruntled? And then there is the matter of PKK, they sure don't want PKK looking heroic or anything like that.