The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared provocative in his speech at the UN, one day before his meeting with the Greek prime minister, Kyriako
barrels, this market fuels the world. so long as at that time oil prices were extremely high, close to $100 a barrel. and there is a market for it. there are middlemen who are willing to buy oil from anywhere. and saddam hussein used that same market all those years ago. i remember being in iraq and seeing the convoys of trucks that were going from the country on a most magnificent highway in the country into black market areas where they could sell this stuff. that s right. highway 8. you re absolutely correct. and we are just making inroads into attacking that financial network. and for the most part, people say, well, why haven t we struck these trucks? we ve been striking oil refineries but it is more important for the military to degrade the combat capacity of isis then get around to destroying their oil refineries and logistics chains for these trucks. we re doing that now, taking away each little building block that hold up this pseudo state,