Finding Unexpected Allies Against ISIS

Wow, Turkey, our NATO "ally", seems to have switched sides in the battle with ISIS:

U.S. Jets to Use Turkish Bases in War on ISIS

ISTANBUL — Turkey plunged into the fight against the Islamic State on Thursday, rushing forces into the first direct combat with its militants on the Syrian border and granting permission for American warplanes to use two Turkish air bases for bombarding the group in Syria.

The developments ended a longstanding reluctance by Turkey, a NATO member and an ally of the United States, to play a more aggressive part in halting the Islamic State’s expanding reach in the Middle East. American officials said it carried the potential to strike Islamic State targets with far greater effect because of Turkey’s proximity, which will allow more numerous and frequent bombings and surveillance missions.

Turkey, a vital conduit for the Islamic State’s power base in Syria, had come under increased criticism for its inability — or unwillingness — to halt the flow of foreign fighters and supplies across its 500-mile border.

Up to now, Turkey has placed a priority on dealing with its own restive Kurdish population, which straddles the Syrian border in the southeast, and in the toppling of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, whom the Turks blame for creating the conditions in his war-ravaged country for the rise of Islamic extremism.

Turkey took Obama's old and ongoing "Assad must go" talk seriously. Their bad. But its reassuring that, for now at least, Turkey is more worried about ISIS than the rise of a free Kurdish state in the failed areas of Syria and Iraq.

 

Comments

[sbw]

Come on, people! Comment! Comment! Comment!

We have a job to do!

[Captain Hate]

All the News that Rodham Approves:

http://twitchy.com/2015/07/24/pathetic-hillary-clintons-campaign-steamrolled-nyt-for-a-rewrite-and-got-it/

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

The IRS used to have a very useful rule called income averaging where a gush of one time income could be spread out over a longer time period.

Could we have thread averaging?

[jimmyk on iPhone]

" Turkey is more worried about ISIS than the rise of a free Kurdish state in the failed areas of Syria and Iraq."

Wish we could say the same about Obama.

[Extraneus]

Obama is more worried about...

Obama Laments Guns: "The One Area I Have Been Stymied," "Even In The Face Of Repeated Mass Killings"

[henry]

Hillary is more worried about State Dept IGs catching her using private email for classified info.

[Extraneus]

“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in March.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/investigation-sought-into-hillary-clintons-emails-1437714369

[Jeff Dobbs]

i put up a new open thread.

[Jeff Dobbs]

just before noon.

[Jeff Dobbs]

made you look

[squaredance]

Obama uses that bit of agitprop "Gun Violence" that Soros and Co. Are pushing, as claims that there are "tens of thousand".

it is .

That is all they ever do: lie, lie lie.

[danoso]

Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her personal email account to send at least four emails that contained classified information

Well, yeah, it was at least four. In reality, it's probably several thousand. Most every correspondence she'd make as SoS would be sensitive to some degree. Can't do your job otherwise.

And our adversaries grabbed every last one of them. Nothing like real-time intel.

[Miss Marple]

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/24/kerry-any-action-by-israel-would-justify-irans-pursuit-of-nukes/

Bizarro World. Down is up, black is white, etc.

"Woe to those who call good evil, and evil, good."

[Captain Hate]

Shocking that Lurch is a joooooooo hater; I'm sure none of you saw that coming...

[Janet S.]

Bizarro World. Down is up, black is white, etc.

It was so odd at that rally yesterday...
Seeing that old leftist outside the White house with her permanent "protest" against nukes
...& there was Code Pink yelling about support for Iran getting nukes.

Maybe you can see these pictures - https://www.facebook.com/janet.shagam/media_set?set=a.1031765473501067.1073741830.100000028723993&type=3

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Shocking that Lurch is a joooooooo hater; I'm sure none of you saw that coming..."

Especially from Kerry from County Down!*
What?
Never mind.

*Yes, I know it's actually Conehead from the south of France.

[Extraneus]

As Andrew Breitbart said: "F*ck you. War."

[Jeff Dobbs]

Fowarded by the Chilurker....

::slaps forehead:: why didn't i think of that!

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Daddy Soros and his Open Society beckon.

Take away the guns and legalize all drugs.
What could go wrong?
I have a flashback to Pleasure Island in Disney's "Pinocchio" with Daddy Soros as Mr. Honest John Foulfellow.

[Extraneus]

‘Flat-out lie’: Cruz calls McConnell a liar on Senate floor

It is rare for a senator to launch such a heated attack on the floor. Senate rules say, "No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."

[Jack is Back!]

Ex,

You mean like McRino calling Pete Domenici an "asshole" on the Senate floor?

[rich@gmu]

all these new threads ... afternoon all.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Ext - Too bad there is no Senate rule against lying about those *outside* the chambers: Mitt Romney and Rush Limbaugh as two examples.

Cruz could have had his shoe slip off and fly at McConnell.

[rich@gmu]

iirc someone had parsed the original Clinton denials about "classified material" on her private email set up.

actually wouldn't put it past Zero and his regime to start a criminal investigation to tie a few more anchors around Broom 3.

[Miss Marple]

Frau, Good analogy!

And you know what happens on Pleasure Island, dono't you? They all turn into DONKEYS!!!

Disney was a prophet, I swear.

[Jeff Dobbs]

.

[Captain Hate]

With any luck, the pot farm guys who got arrested will flat line Bergdahl for not getting pinched during the bust.

[Extraneus]

What conduct could possibly be considered unbecoming of a Senator?

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

That Cruz video is excellent in Ex's 2:20 link.
God bless him and he's got my vote.
I'll settle for Walker but prefer Cruz.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

Sorry, here's the link with the video of his floor speech.

[clarice]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/they-really-really-don-t-him_996621.html?nopager=1#

[daddy]

Good Morning.

The cute Trish Regan
on FOX Business just told us why Hillary's Plan to raise the Capital Gains Tax won't work:

Regan: Moments ago we heard from Hillary Clinton and her plan to double the rate people pay on Capital Gains. The problem with this plan is that anytime you try to increase taxes on the formation of Capital, you hurt Capital formation. You can think about it kind of like this. If I get a hundred bucks to invest in the Stock Market and I get taxed at 40% instead of 20%, then you know what, I'm going to need a whole lot more money on my investment made in order to be whole. The entire reason we tax Capital at a lesser rate is because we want people like you and me out there to be taking chances to invest in other people's ventures. By lending them money, by buying stock in someone's company, we're taking on risk. So if you tax more, people won't be willing to take on as much risk. It's pretty simple, Econ 101, makes you wonder whether Hillary Clinton took any Economics classes there at Wellsley . Maybe they were Keynesian classes?

[Jeff Dobbs]

Trump on the "good" illegal immigrants:

"Then the other ones -- and I'm a very big believer in merit system, I have to tell you -- because some of these people have been here, they've done a good job. You know, in some cases sadly they've been living under the shadows, etc. etc. We have to do something. So whether it's merit or whether it's whatever, But I'm a believer in the merit system. If somebody's been outstanding, we try and work something out."

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

When you talk like that you can pretty much claim you believe in anything.

[Rick Ballard]

It's so tough to say "I will faithfully execute the laws of the United States to the best of my ability".

He's as full of the frabjous joy of the jabberwock as anyone else. It's all carney barker gibberish.

Got your ticket to the Egress yet?

[jimmyk]

The pic at 2:34 reminds me of this, courtesy James Woods and People's Cube.

Caption contest?

[daddy]

General Jack Keane on FOX Business says he finds great credibility in the report that Britain's MI5 says ISIS is planning on using drones to attack and bomb public venues in Britain.

Makes sense to me. I've noticed that Laser attacks against airplanes have been going up by quantum leap factors in the last few days, so it's no surprise whatever that with this new inexpensive drone technology it's going to be put to nefarious purposes quickly. That cool Billion Dollars stolen by ISIS from Mosul banks can sure pay for a lot of experiments with explosive laden drones.

[daddy]

A poll I actually believe---FOX reports that Republicans "Favorability View of the Republican Party" is in the toilet---32%.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

The GOP does some things moderately and some things conservatively.
They are somewhat unpopular.
Their political enemies tell them they are unpopular because of the conservative things.
They believe them and do more moderate things.
They become more unpopular.
Their political enemies tell them to double down on the mush.
They become more unpopular.
Who do they turn to for advice once more?
Their political enemies.
Has anyone trademarked The Stupid Party?

[Frau Spruchwort]

"I will faithfully execute the laws of the United States to the best of my ability".

SCOTUS may need to interpret that, Rick.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

I really hate it when I lay down a withering hail of fire right after somebody cheerfully comments "new thread!" while I was composing my killer.
It's "jerk store" all over again. :(

[daddy]

Thanks Ext for the link to Cruz's link calling Mitch McConnell a liar:

I liked this part---

Cruz: "I stood up and I asked the Majority Leader, very directly, "What was the Deal that was just cut on TPA, and was there a deal on the Export/Import Bank?" It was a direct question. I asked the majority Leader in front of all of the Republican Senators. The Majority Leader was visibly angry with me that I would ask such a question. And the Majority leader looked at me and said:

"There is no Deal
There is no Deal
There is no Deal."

Like St Peter he repeated it 3 times.

------------------------------

And that's simply Cruz's starting comments about Mitch McConnell. "F*ck you. War."

Sounds like Cruz has had enough of business as usual in the Senate.

[clarice]

From Carly's team: "Clarice,
I'll be quick: PPP just released their latest poll for the GOP nomination--and we're up to 7th place.
That means Carly's tied with top-tier candidates like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz--even though our campaign doesn't have anything close to their financial resources or name-recognition just yet."

[MarkO]

This is just too, too good:

Like St Peter he repeated it 3 times.

[jimmyk]

Sounds like Cruz has had enough of business as usual in the Senate.

It's a good time to buy stock in fainting couch companies.

[Buckeye]

Clarice

Thanks for that piece of good news about Carly.

It will be a big plus for her to be in the debates.

[rich@gmu]

>>>Has anyone trademarked The Stupid Party?

Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 24, 2015 at 03:50 PM

The Stupid Party™©

[rich@gmu]

>>>Got your ticket to the Egress yet?

Posted by: Rick Ballard | July 24, 2015 at 03:28 PM

indeed.

oil broke $50 as well ... is a recession on the horizon?

[Miss Marple]

Buckeye,

It will be a big plus for all of us to have someone who actually answers questions, plus she will be a nice contrast to Trump's bluster. Plus she is fearless.

That debate is probably going to rival the Super Bowl in ratings.

[clarice]

" PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump is likely facing at least some fallout from his comments about John McCain over the weekend. Nevertheless we do find him narrowly leading the national field in our survey, which went into the field on Monday. Trump gets 19% to 17% for Scott Walker, 12% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Ben Carson and Marco Rubio, 8% for Mike Huckabee, 4% each for Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul, 3% each for Chris Christie and John Kasich, 1% for Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum, and less than 1% each for Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, and George Pataki."

[daddy]

Remember, this is on the Senate Floor and Ted's speaking about Mitch McConnell.

Cruz: Madam President, it saddens me to say this. I sat in my office, I told my staff, the Majority Leader looked me in the eye, and looked 54 Republicans in the eye, I did not believe he would tell a flat out lie. And I voted based on those assurances that he made to each and every one of us. What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every republican Senator, but what he told the Press over and over and over again, was a simple lie...

Madam President, if he was telling us the truth when he told us there was no deal why would he do what he just did?...

Well, we now know, that when the Majority Leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false. That has consequences for how this body operates.

If you or I cannot trust what the majority leader tells us, that will have consequences on other Legislation as well, on how this institution operates.

There are a host of amendments that the American people are focused on, things like defunding Planned Parenthood, after the gruesome video. The Majority Leader doesn't want to vote on that. That's actually something the American people are focused on...

[Captain Hate]

Am I the only person who doesn't recognize the name "Jim Gilmore"? Ben Carson is polling pretty well for somebody who is probably less of a politician than Trump. Jindal, Perry and Santorum should be pretty unhappy that they're trailing Fat RINO Bastard and God Tells Me How to Vote. The level of Huckabee support never fails to surprise me.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/24/carly-fiorinas-very-good-week/

This is a recap of her interviews and statements, with video if you missed any of it.

Yay!

[Captain Hate]

is a recession on the horizon?

It doesn't feel like we ever got out of the last one.

[narciso]

He won on a promise to reverse the Virginia car tax imposed by his predecessor,

[Captain Hate]

Fiorina 2016: Vote for a Real Woman, Not a Doormat.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

Jim Gilmore is a former Virginia governor. Bald guy. You would recognize him if you saw him.

[boris]

"Plus she is fearless"

Big reason why I like her, Cruz, and Walker.

I like that about Trump.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, here is Gilmore on Cavuto.

[narciso]

Le Donald needs to resonate some understanding re the financial crisis, perhaps some of the huntress's advisors

[narciso]

That last was from right scoop, Gilmore also chaired a commission warning about terrorism in the late 1990s whose recommendYions went unheeded.

[Captain Hate]

I'm sure I've seen him before per Miss Marple but maybe I'm having a senior moment. Or maybe after Cuccinelli lost to McAwful I mentally purged all Virginians except for Bratt and Janet and rich.

[Just wait.]

Are we angry yet?

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Captain Hate | July 24, 2015 at 04:34 PM

you got that right. was thinking more about how the msm and the nber will massage it to blame someone else.

they'll try.

was just surprised to see oil drop to below $50

[Captain Hate]

Maybe Trump is confused with how economically illiterate McRINO sounded in the 2008 campaign.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Just wait. | July 24, 2015 at 04:46 PM

working on it. starting with filter this fine afternoon ... then I'll break out the good stuff.

[Miss Marple]

I have barbecue chicken on, and need to get the pan ready for corn on the cob.

And then...it's Miller High Life time!

[narciso]

There isn't demand for it, that the nowegian blue they keep nailing to the perch.

[Frau Spruchwort]

OT - Speaking of women from Hay-ull, we interrupt this thread for the 3-minute hate of Hanoi Jane who is quoted by Insty:

“If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.”

Pray on your knees? Get it? This was before Ted Turner and Jane's discovering her Christian persona.

Meow alert: I notice that all of her recent evening gowns sport long sleeves of flesh-colored tulle and a dicky of the same material to cover her traitorous décolletage.

Backpfeifengesicht!
Backpfeifengesicht!

[Extraneus]

Surely Trump's real estate holdings took a hit after millions of bad risk people to whom the gov't forced banks to loan money defaulted. It's hard to believe he thinks the bankers were at fault.

I would have thought he'd be front and center on the CRA. Maybe he made money off of the deal.

[daddy]

I wonder if the MSM will gleefully attack Cruz for gauchely going outside standard Senate protocol in attacking McConnell?

I hope so, as in the long run I think it will help Cruz.

I'm having a tough time predicting whether on the panel later today George Will will term it "unbecoming," or "unseemly."

What do you guys think?

Get your vote in quick for:

(A) Unbecoming
(B) Unseemly

[Rick Ballard]

Rich,

Why should demand for oil grow when the world population of those capable of producing a discernible surplus as a percentage of total population has peaked and begun to drop? I agree completely that the NBR/Census/BLS divisions of minitru will not discern a recession until after inauguration of a Republican President.

The situation in China is compounding the decline in demand with hot money sprinting for anything vaguely resembling an exit. The Central Pimps need to print faster in order to sustain the illusion of a sky filled with Rainbow Unicorns forever.

[Jack is Back!]

Juan Williams is the best dressed dumb rock on plante earth. He can't even read the Clinton talking points in 32pt font.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

A & B and 'Beneath the dignity of the Senate'.

[daddy]

Top comment at Instapundit on Cruz's speech:

MAllen15

I listened to the entire speech and he tore the GOPe a new one. He mentions the how nothing changed in 2010 and 2014. The leadership lies to the members to their faces constantly and always does what's best for the CoC and never the people that vote for them because of campaign contributions.

Then wraps it all up nicely by noting that the first thing the Repubs did after winning in 2014 was pass the CROmnibus pork, then fund Obamacare, pass TPA/TPP, ram through Loretta Lynch and now they're going to pass Ex-Im because that's what the CoC has ordered up. And then he guts McConnell by simply asking what difference would there be if Harry Reid were still running the show.

Somebody in Cruz's position had to say it. All of it was true. He's just dismantled the carneys in DC. He burned a lot of bridges today and I've got his back from here on out.

I like Walker too but Ted Cruz just got my vote.

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I agree 100%. (at the moment:)

[henry]

Sure daddy, but evening news or NYT will show crickets on radar over Texas.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

LOL Frau; Barbarella is just a vague memory.

[Jack is Back!]

A little more Cruz to make your day:)

Surprise! The States Can Reject the Iran Deal.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/22/surprise-the-states-can-reject-the-iran-deal/

[rse]

You left out passing the ESEA Rewrite while lying about what it does and does not do so that parents and taxpayers do not go into lynching mode over the summer recess.

The US Senate should not be authorizing the psychological abuse of our children so that the CoC can make sure no one comes up with an unauthorized great invention.

GOPE-K-12 education=workforce devt=economic devt led by pols, the CoC, and community organizers to show 'compassion'.

Traitors or Illiterates--it's one or the other given the language they adopted.

[daddy]

Well looky here:

McConnell to fast-track bill to defund Planned Parenthood

The move comes after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed McConnell during a blistering floor speech earlier Friday, suggesting the Kentucky Republican wanted to dodge a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood.

[narciso]

Rae, yes, installing the magic beans mallware brother Neil passed to the Medici does no one any good.

[squaredance]

And then there is this.

[narciso]

My reservations about me Donald have been born out on two rather significant ways, if you're going to be rich man's garage, you need to be grounded on some things.

[Eric in Boise]

(A) Unbecoming
(B) Unseemly

(C) Almost as bad as those damn denim jeans

[rich@gmu]

Rick-

>>>the world population of those capable of producing a discernible surplus as a percentage of total population has peaked and begun to drop<<<

hadn't thought of that angle but interesting. does make sense.

narciso-

just waiting for peak oilers explain this graph ...

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/stats/DailyProdPrice.pdf

[squaredance]

And this

This should really {PO people like Cruz...I hope that he and the TP can get out in front of it.

Here is the money quote:

The fact that there are still members of the Republican House that are obstructionist, isolationists that would be willing to shut down the government only reinforces that the Chamber and the business community, for that matter, will double down on this winning formula,

That is a CoC honcho speaking.

Read the article at the link.

[squaredance]

narc: Well, just wear shoes with rubber soles.

[narciso]

Of course '24 had the drone plot last year, back before the jayvees got their act together.

[daddy]

YouGov poll: Veterans view Trump more favorably than they do McCain

From my personal experience, which involves constantly interacting with Retired and still-active Reserve Airmen, the results of this poll are no surprise at all.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

So I've got The Five on with the mute button on but from what I can tell they haven't said a word about Ted Cruz's speech Now they are talking about the Taylor-Nicki spat...seriously!

[Dissonant Donk.]

Excellent link @ 5:23, squaredance.

[Miss Marple]

It is no surprise to me, either, daddy. Mark Steyn said his vet neighbor loathes McCain and is gung-ho for Trump.

I haven't talked to anyone in my family except my 2 sisters. Well, my daughter, but she is a liberal so of course she doesn't like Trump.

My sisters are interested. The other sister is a reflecive dem so she is going to support Hillary. She even bought her biography! My brothr is a union guy so I know he's been brainwashed to support whoever the dem candidate is.

It's mostly the people who are upset at how the country is going and who feel like no matter what they do or who they vote for, nothing ever changes.

[daddy]

Yep, Texas,

And now it's updates on Hulk Hogan.

I'll give them a break until tomorrow's show tho', as they did cover the Hillary E-mail thingy, before commenting on breast size differences between Nicki and Taylor.

[rich@gmu]

hope the Chamber's operation is better than Cantor's reelection campaign ...

[squaredance]

Every conservative I have know is extremely angry with CoC. Country Club wing of GOP Establishment.

Over and over I hear "this is there last chance.

If the run Jeb, I do not see how they can possibly win.

The GOP just does not get it.

[squaredance]

I have know= I know

[daddy]

QUIZ TIME:

Gerri Willis on FOX Business just told us that today is:

(a) National Chocolate Day
(b) National CupCake Day
(c) National Tequila Day
(d) National Pancake Day

The envelope please...

And the answer is...

[daddy]

!

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Daddy - now I'm wishing I had one of those instead of my glass of red wine....

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Also, I can't wait to read what Jennifer Rubin has to say about Cruz's Senate speech!! Should be entertaining