{"id":6778,"date":"2014-10-15T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:27:25","slug":"key-u-s-ally-needs-to-join-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6778","title":{"rendered":"Key U.S. ally needs to join the fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Where are the Turks?<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is a critical ally of the west, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, possessing a significant military apparatus and a reputation as fearsome fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Turks haven&#8217;t joined the fight against the Islamic State in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/strikes-pound-jihadists-us-led-coalition-meets-173455057.html<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-led coalition of nations is continuing its air campaign against ISIL. The Central Command contends that the strikes are beginning to have an impact on ISIL&#8217;s advance. White House press secretary Josh Earnest cautions reporters that the air campaign is still in its early stages but that it&#8217;s beginning to hurt ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Turks &#8212; whose country borders both Syria and Iraq &#8212; hasn&#8217;t yet joined the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, Turkey is allowing U.S. pilots to fly through its air space en route to hitting targets in Syria and Iraq. The planes are launching from U.S. bases inside Turkey. That&#8217;s good news.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Turks need to join this fight and become the ally they say they are.<\/p>\n<p>Other Muslim nations have become partners in this fight. Turkey no longer can just talk a good game. It needs to suit up and start hitting the enemy &#8230; hard.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are the Turks? Turkey is a critical ally of the west, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, possessing a significant military apparatus and a reputation as fearsome fighters. Yet the Turks haven&#8217;t joined the fight against the Islamic State in a meaningful way. http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/strikes-pound-jihadists-us-led-coalition-meets-173455057.html The U.S.-led coalition of nations is continuing its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key U.S. ally needs to join the fight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[2330,2347,2362,3219,4489],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-islamic-state","tag-nato","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}