he said the pkk, the kurds with whom we ve been fighting to defeat isis who we just abandoned a week or so ago, was worse than isis. let s listen to what he said. and the kurds are much safer right now but the kurds know how to fight. and, as i said, they re not angels, they re not angels. take a look. you have to go back and take a look. but they fought with us. we paid a lot of money for them to fight with us and that s okay. they did well when they fought with us. they didn t do so well when they didn t fight with us. and i say why are we protecting syria s sfland assad s not a friend of ours, why are we protecting their land? and syria also has a relationship with the kurds who, by the way, are no angels. if russia s going to help in protecting the kurds, that s a good thing, not a bad thing. now the pkk, which is a part of the kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis. so it s a very semi complicated,
fighters, isil shipping out fuel for sale that helps finance the terrorist activities. very blunt comments from the president about a nato ally, saying nearly 100 kilometers, they have one of the largest militaries in the world, the military of turkey, but he says they re not controlling almost 100 kilometers of their border with syria, terrorists are going back and forward, and isis isil, as he calls it, is shipping oil illegally through that border to for sale to europe, if you will, to make money to fund isis terror operations. when you hear that from the president, what goes through your mind? well, it been no secret of the fact that turkey has not been standing with the united states standing, with us in this fight against isis to defeat and destroy isis. their first priority has been to squash the kurds, get rid of kurds who, by the way, have been our most effective fighting ground force defeating isis in both northern both iraq as
former military attache in syria. let s deal with what s in play right now. the most important thing, rick, to give some sense of is the movement of the violence right now. what are we seeing? well, it s rolling towards baghdad. if you look at the map and you see the cities that have fallen to isis already, they come down the two major attack axes to baghdad. it s moving like a snowball and as they go they gain strength. we thought as they went closer they would string themselves out and would become a target. the local militias have joined with them, the sunnis who feel oppressed under the maliki regime have joined them. they are collecting a lot of u.s. military assets that we have given to the iraqis and have been fleeing. the good news is that they are being back filled as they move along by kurds who isis doesn t want to fight the kurds. the kurds believe these are some of their lands and they are