If I have to prove it I would have to post a series of discussions because you are not dumb to say it openly. Every member which is following your logic knows exactly who you are defending. You are defending a terrorist organization while I am defending unified Syria without terror and with place for everyone- Turkey's plan for Syria. T
There is nothing for debate. We let ISIS rise and nothing good happened afterwards. In the beginning ISIS for Turkey were “The structure called ISIL [the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the previous name of the IS] , at its core, could be viewed as a terrorist radical group, but people have joined it ... and there are significant numbers of Turkmens, Sunni Arabs, Kurds... we should understand it like this. Previous discontent, anger, discrimination and insults gave birth to a broad reaction"- Turkish ex Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolu. Do you see what our previous Muslim Brotherhood geniuses like Ahmet Davutoglu were saying? Do you see what is the result of watching from the side trough all these years?
Don't even compare the political situation in Idlib with the Talibans. While the Talibans are excellent, determined warriors and also with harsh terrain, government forces which are drug addicts HTS got a "local support" and trenches in which the opposing from them will be killed. You sound just like the mountain rats in Afrin "#Shehid_Namirin, #TurkeysVietnam".
Why should we work with them? To sabotage all of the efforts and start a new meaningless fight in which Idlib city will be bombed 24/7 because that's what they want. Where we could get with a terrorist organization designated even by the UN as such? They couldn't put out political representatives, couldn't give freedom to the people, they can only fight, suicide bomb and give fatwas about who is apostate and who is not. Eventually they will give us an isolated terrorist sh!thole called the Islamic Salvation State of Idlib which will not be opened for tourists, will not be recognized by anybody including Turkey's brother countries, will live in conditions comparable to those of Taliban controlled Afghanistan, we will have a border with a terrorist state from which terrorists will be able to cross freely into Turkey and give us bad image. This is not short sighted. Short sighted is to think that a terrorist organization can make the world powers retreat and put down Assad with a 30.000 men power and declare fake "Shariah" from the ones that are encouraging lashing of women because they talk to loud.
Now because of them let me tell you how Idlib will look afterwards before HTS get killed or obey to the Turkish backed National Army and official opposition government structures and institutions. That bubble is getting smaller and smaller year by year when somebody tries to do something stupid. This conflict will not be resolved militarily and for sure not politically with representatives from an UN recognized terrorist organization.
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