Eject Turkey from NATO and recognize them as a supporter of ISIS NOW!

Turkey, led by radical Islamist PM Erdogan, is determined to drag the USA and NATO into the Syrian war in order to stop the slaughter of ISIS. Furthermore, Erdogan wants to prevent the West from supporting the Kurdish PKK rebels – who are currently working with the West and are the ONLY reliable, successful fighting force on the ground in Syria.

It is common knowledge that Turkey has become an open door for ISIS recruits. All they have to do is fly into Ankara, and a well-worn underground provides all the nessecities to deliver fresh ISIS fighters to the Syrian battlefield. Crossing the border from Turkey to Syria is unfettered to ISIS recruits, but an iron fist awaits any PKK rebel recruits who want to join their brothers in battle against ISIS.

It is also a well-known fact that ISIS gets a substantial amount of their oil revenue from highly discounted oil sales to Turkey. The West has know about the oil transports to Turkey via oil trucks for years because it is hard to hide a thousand trucks a day crossing back and forth over the Syrian/Turkish border.

So there you have it: Turkey is aiding the flow of ISIS fighters AND funding their war right under the nose of the Obama administration - and you might wonder why we have done nothing about it?  The USA has bases in Turkey and we need them in order to have the heavy lift capability to fight ISIS in Syria and elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is a lot of suspicion that the reason why the USA has only been using pin pricks against ISIS personnel on the field - and not destroying the oil tucks is because of pressure from Turkish PM Erdogan. We get to use the base for pinpricks against ISIS and Turkey gets to use their air force to attack the Kurdish fighters (our guys), and the USA gets to use their bases to “observe” what is happening on the battlefield. Is anyone surprised that none of our allies trust us anymore?

All of a sudden, Russia enters the Syrian war in support of Syria. Russian fighter jets immediately blow up every ISIS/Turkish oil truck convoy in sight. The world applauded the Russian strikes against the oil convoys  - and everyone wondered out loud “how could the USA have allowed these transports”? Erdogan, as retaliation, decides to shoot down a Russian fighter jet under the pretense that Russia invaded it’s airspace and then requests NATO intervene militarily on it’s side against Russia under article 4 of the NATO treaty.

Turkey has never been a reliable US ally. Turkey didn’t allow the US military to transport war materials overland to Iraq during that war – forcing us to fly everything, and now they are on the side of ISIS. It is time to stop this charade and call a spade a spade: Turkey is a state sponsor of ISIS – along with a number of other Muslim countries. You can’t win the war against ISIS just on the battlefield. They have no shortage of fresh recruits. But, if you choke off their funding that comes from their various state sponsors, they will wither into insignificance.

Progressivism VS Realism

There may not be a better example of human stupidity than the adherence to fixed ideologies. It's amazing how quickly the partisan mind forfeits its capacity to think and decide in practical terms as a given situation arises, simply because it's wed to a one-size-fits-all mindset. 

On this Syrian refugee issue, it almost seems like the "Progressive" liberal hens would allow the foxes into the house because, well, that's what we're supposed to do when it comes to accepting outsiders. The “Progressive doctrine” calls for the unquestioning, open arms of "tolerance". It prohibits us from making others feel unwanted or excluded, therefore it trumps any concern about safety and security.

Much of this adherence to ideology is driven by a need to oppose perceived political rivals. If the other side is for it, then we have to be against it, or vice versa. Pragmatism be damned, come Hell or high water, our side has to win the argument!

This mental habit can end up getting people slaughtered, as partisan morons reflexively become turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. Actually, in and of itself, there's nothing morally wrong with exercising caution on these Syrian refugees. There's nothing morally wrong with the word NO. For that matter, there's nothing morally wrong with enforcing immigration laws and keeping violators of those laws out. Either we have our own country - a country of laws - or we don't.

But good luck trying to knock these truths into the thick skull of a knee-jerk liberal.