U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has a number of strange observations about Israel’s strike on the Abu al-Duhur military base and more: “Israel ‘baited’ Turkey with Abu al-Duhur airbase ‘pre-election’ strike, US Envoy Tom Barrack says,” by Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2026: According to Barrack, US President Donald Trump recently asked Erdogan […]
Tom Barrack Has the Middle East Situation Backwards
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has had a lot to say about the Israeli strike on the Abu al-Duhur military base: “Israel ‘baited’ Turkey with Abu al-Duhur airbase ‘pre-election’ strike, US Envoy Tom Barrack says,” by Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2026: According to Barrack, Israel raised the concern with the United States […]
Tom Barrack Accuses Israel of ‘Baiting’ Turkey and Risking ‘World War IIl’
Arab-American Tom Barrack is our ambassador to Turkey, and special envoy to Syria as well. Barrack has fallen hard for Ahmed al-Sharaa’s charade of being a “moderate” who wants to make “peace” with Israel. Barrack also seems as impressed as his boss with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the padishah who rules Turkey and nurses his neo-Ottoman […]
U.S. slams Israeli strikes on Syrian base as ‘unnecessary escalation,’ but which side is really escalating?
We are deeply concerned that the confirmed Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability. The Al-Sharra government has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces. It has, in fact,… — Ambassador Tom Barrack (@USAMBTurkiye) August 18, 2026 This comes along with the news of […]
Russia, China, Turkey pushing for immediate end to war against Iran
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea together comprise what has been known since the presidency of George W. Bush as the “axis of evil.” With Iran now being hammered, that axis is weakened. Turkey, meanwhile, has been termed “the new Iran” prior to the outbreak of the current war, and for good reason. See also […]
US to Ally with ‘Moderate’ ISIS to Fight ‘Extremist’ ISIS
We have to ally with moderate Islamic jihadists to stop immoderate Islamic jihadists. Yesterday’s satire is today’s headline. I used to make jokes about allying with moderate Al Qaeda to fight extremist Al Qaeda. Now it’s literally happening. Tom Barrack, Turkey’s envoy to America, who misleadingly functions as America’s envoy to Turkey and its occupied […]