Let Putin Take On ISIS

So, the big news today is Putin opting to side with Bashar Hafez al-Assad, is sending in serious forces and equipment to take on these monsters...let him use his country's lives and treasure propping up an evil man, and taking on the most dangerous groups of terrorist the world has ever seen...in the end, think the outcome is going to be pretty clear.   When his countryman start seeing their soldiers decapitated, their heads put on stakes, their love affair with Putin will soon wane.   Furthermore, he is going to have no choice eventually but to pull his troops out, and in that vacuum Bashar Hafez al-Assad will fall.

Smart money seems to say the United States cannot afford to let Russia and Putin carve out a larger role in the Middle East...I disagree.   Perhaps we can use Iran, Iraq and Russia coming to the aid of Syria against ISIS can be used to America's advantage.  First, Iraq as it was, the Iraq Americans fought and died for is no more, so let the country splinter sooner rather than later...in the meantime, while Iran and Russia are spending hundreds of billions if not trillions waging war in Syria, let us do two things, perhaps three things.

1.   Strengthen our ties with Turkey.

2.  Back the Kurds not only with military equipment, but in becoming a separate country, helping them in carving out their own nation from the splintered Iraq.

3.  Put our diplomatic efforts into helping a new Kurdistan and Turkey become both friends and allies.

While our military is watching the show over in Syria, lets rebuild our military, including building some world class military bases and airstrips in the new Kurdistan.   Position Turkey, Kurdistan and America to jump in and fill the void that WILL HAPPEN when Russia fails in the Middle East, and Bashar Hafez al-Assad's government collapses.

Before you write me off as a heretic or lunatic, consider this...Israel is already trying to strengthen ties with Iraqi Kurds, and are already getting most of their oil from them.  Having American military bases in a new Kurdistan would allow us to have Israel's back in a much more concrete way, would allow America to easily strike Iran if the need should arise...such as when they break the nuclear agreement which we all know they will.

The fly in the ointment...Turkey is not happy with Israel right now.   Question is, could Turkey come around...yes, but only when and if Israel is willing to get serious about creating a Palestinian State...As long as Iraq is splintering up into God knows what, wondering if there is any chance the Palestinians would consider having their own state carved out of the crumbling nation that was Iraq....especially if they knew that the United Nations, America, and the Kurds would help in defending the borders of their new nation...I know the Palestinians want Jerusalem as their capital, but what's more important...peace, and your own place to call home, or standing on principal while your people suffer?

Putin wants to take on ISIS and defend Syria...I say let him have at it, but only if we use the time to America and our allies best advantage.