Erdogan Demands Cleric Back Will Obama Fold

While Obama is enjoying the links after a National Security Advisors conference call

Our air campaign against ISIS from Turkey has just encountered a major stall

As a result of the failed coup Erdogan has just shut down our Turkish base

Reducing our efforts against the barbarians to a snail’s pace

While Obama is expecting his fair share of mulligans and in the leather gimme putts

We have no idea of what it will cost us to reopen and or how long it will remain shut

But reading the tea leaves and hearing Erdogan’s unveiled threats and knowing of Obama’s lack of spine

A very good chance we are facing major problems in a very short time

Since 1999 there is a Turkish cleric named Gulen  living here in seclusion

Who is being tried in abstentia in Turkey for espionage and treason

Erdogan after the coup blamed Gulen for the coup and wants him back

Obama better be getting ready for the “or else” you cannot use your base for ISIS attacks

What is really troubling is gulen is exactly the sort of moderate Muslim in the ideology war against ISIS we need

His message of secularism, interfaith discussion, democracy, economic development may destroy the Islamist seeds

Erdogan on the contrary pays only lip service to fighting ISIS and is veering to an autocratic Sharia like state

With a border not closed so ISIS fighters can move in and out of the caliphate at a steady rate

The Gulen Movement can be a very powerful force

To cause the wanna be martyrs to change their foolish course

We have spent millions to train Syrians to fight against Assad with absolutely zero battlefield results

Money better spent on the Movement why have we not with him sought fit to consult?

Probably unlike Obama who cannot and will not radical Islam identify

Gulen has been fighting to its theological basis decry and deny

Under no circumstances can we allow this man to be forced to leave

Losing perhaps our best chance along with his followers to theological victory over radical Islam achieve

If cleric after cleric announces that there is no Paradise and virgins for martyrs who innocents slaughter

ISIS very, very soon will be losing most if not all of its misguided cannon fodder

© July 16, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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