ground troops from the region to avoid accidental clashes experts say turkey is looking to russia for further support. this is inevitably going to mean more close cooperation with russia for turkey and. this is probably russian threat to pull turkey. is it clink the u.s. position meanwhile remains ambiguous having backed the kurdish militia during the war against so-called islamic state washington is now refraining from direct criticism while urging turkey to quote exercise restraint in its military actions the u.s. has also said it takes turkey s legitimate security concerns seriously the call on turkey to show restraint was echoed by the u.n. security council on monday but operation all of branch continues to intensify creating yet another front in the seven year syrian civil war.
has to be fundamentally changed at the political level. i think the other thing we need to be doing is engaging the countries on the periphery, particularly iran. to exercise restraint. not to pour fuel on the fire by sending in their proxies and simply sort of inflaming what could become a renewed civil war. you know, you have had this narrative on the right, although no one will come out and say they think we should go back in with troops, but that there s something the u.s. should be doing. thomas friedman, not someone i often agree with on much of anything when it comes to his analysis of the middle east, he actually had something interesting to say on that front. and he essentially said this is why we should stay out of this fight. he said for now i d say stay out of this fight. not because it s the best option but because it s the least bad. there is no denying that terrorism could be exported our way from iraq s new radicalized sunni stn, but we have a national security agenc