Response to a friend on Turkey and Daesh:

One friend says Turkey may actually support Daesh and only pretends not to for NATO reasons. (I have no idea if true or not.):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../research-paper-isis...

A response to Susan Bahry a Facebook friend on Turkey and Daesh:

Unfortunately, that seems to be true. President Erdogan is working along with US and UK for a policy of regime change in Syria and of toppling President Assad. It seems they all favour an Islamic Caliphate that would govern the whole region of Western and Central Asia, and North Africa, from the borders of China and Russia to the Maghreb, Sahara and Mali.

It seems the idea of an Islamic Union has been promoted in Western governing circles for decades.

Years ago, President Erdogan was encouraged to dream of the same - rebuilding the former Islamic Ottoman Caliphate. When he travelled with his strictly hijabed wife to London to receive the most grandiose official welcoming by the Queen and her Majesty's government, bigger than for any other head of state or for the Pope, and since then, Erdogan started seeing himself as the head of such Caliphate. He sees Daesh, favoured by the Anglo-American governments over the Syrian government, as just a prelude to his Turkey's Islamic Caliphate.

It is no secret that Erdogan has allowed Turkey's borders to be a way of transit for ISIS/Daesh to recruit young men and women from the West, and for Daesh/ISIS to sale its production of oil, a multi-billion dollar market via Turkey, which enables the Islamist gangs to generously pay their recruits and their efforts of war and terrorism. It also benefits the Economies of the West and the big Corporations, with the present much lower oil prices, detrimental to Russia, Iran and Iraq. Therefore, instead of fighting against Daesh, Erdogan is fighting against the Kurds who are fighting against Daesh (Islam unity against Kurdish ethnic separatism).

If US, UK and their Nato followers would leave the region and stop pushing for regional ethnic and religious sectarian fights, then Kurds, Arabs, Turcs, Persians, Armenians and others could start cooperating with and respecting each others. As did former European States who created European Union instead of continuing fighting against each others like did Germans, French, English, Italians, Austrians and so on. If the merchant of death stop selling their weapons to the belligerents and arming them, if they start behaving based on a minimum of ethic and moral principles, then a different dynamic would be created, one of cooperation between the regional actors.

This is a big ''if''. Too much money is at stake. Just think of Canada: at the beginning of the year, it signed a contract with Saudi Arabia to sale military equipment for the amount of 15 billion dollars. Right after that contract, the Saudi King Abdullah passed away, and the Prime minister Harper gave tribute to him, calling the leader of the most backward regime on Earth a ''man of peace''. Neither the NDP or the Liberals dared to criticize the deal and to wow to cancel it if forming the government: too much money at stake: think about ''employment'' and ''jobs''. US had several contracts of tens of billions of dollars with the same Saudi Arabia in the past decade and since the state was created in 1920. The government of France is also trying to please the same backward states, for the same reason of money: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf Emirates.

It is sad, but the ECONOMY is the main concern of our governments and of our society, of our social and political system, nationally and internationally. ''MORALITY''? No leader yet to promote that concept in International Relations. Perhaps that is one of many reasons many of our youngsters, disappointed, joined and are joining Daesh As cruel and sad as it is, it gives many of them, disillusioned by the immense inequalities and injustices, disillusioned by our immorality, a purpose in life. They see Islamists welcoming them, calling them for a cause; they see them ready to die for a cause, compared to our politicians, to those better off in our society, just alive to self-serving and for more money.

A big paradigm shift is needed in our developed world. Instead of stealing other countries wealth and peace, and then accept more ''refugees'', we need to be less selfish, to help other countries to develop, to encourage them to stop an uncontrolled growth of their population, and to help them provide peace and comfort and happiness to their citizens.