Sunni extremists in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar. They have unlimited funds to spread their sick form of Islam...Wahhabism around the world.

It's not a mystery where ISIS got its love of beheading from. It's a weekly public spectacle in Saudi Arabia.

they could discuss with Erdogan his willingness to treat ISIS as a sometime tactical asset

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/world/middleeast/sale-of-us-arms-fuels-the-wars-of-arab-states.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — To wage war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is using F-15 fighter jets bought from Boeing. Pilots from the United Arab Emirates are flying Lockheed Martin’s F-16 to bomb both Yemen and Syria. Soon, the Emirates are expected to complete a deal with General Atomics for a fleet of Predator drones to run spying missions in their neighborhood.

As the Middle East descends into proxy wars, sectarian conflicts and battles against terrorist networks, countries in the region that have stockpiled American military hardware are now actually using it and wanting more. The result is a boom for American defense contractors looking for foreign business in an era of shrinking Pentagon budgets — but also the prospect of a dangerous new arms race in a region where the map of alliances has been sharply redrawn.

Last week, defense industry officials told Congress that they were expecting within days a request from Arab allies fighting the Islamic State — Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt — to buy thousands of American-made missiles, bombs and other weapons, replenishing an arsenal that has been depleted over the past year.

The United States has long put restrictions on the types of weapons that American defense firms can sell to Arab nations, meant to ensure that Israel keeps a military advantage against its traditional adversaries in the region. But because Israel and the Arab states are now in a de facto alliance against Iran, the Obama administration has been far more willing to allow the sale of advanced weapons in the Persian Gulf, with few public objections from Israel.

“When you look at it, Israel’s strategic calculation is a simple one,” said Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The gulf countries “do not represent a meaningful threat” to Israel, he said. “They do represent a meaningful counterbalance to Iran.” more...

such as Russian troops in Ukraine, Crimea.

To be fair though some could say the same about the support the US is providing to some groups in Syria but atleast the US isnt sending it its own troops in claiming they are Syrians trying to free themselves from the tyranny of their own government.

could we hold our noses and form an unlikely partnership with Russia in the fight against extremism? It might be necessary if not pleasant.

to its base on the Crimean Peninsula and abide by the agreements it signed.

pooty poot's word is not very good

who unleashed terrorists and mercenaries in East Ukraine

it's different when terror attacks strkes you or yours don'cha think. I feel that's usually when people began to take it seriously, right?

you have room to talk, think Ukraine, and think of your support for a guy that is a total jerk by the name of Assad.
Why don't you call for "free" elections in Syria..
You really are a megalomaniac


Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

Time to get the civilized people working together to kick some ass. Holding hands and singing kumbaya will not appease fanatical Muslim barbarians.

Yeah. Get the civilized together...

Ahhhhhhh...... isn't that special???

Come on. Grow up.

Crimea, Georgia, Ukraine.....

State sponsored terrorism is the same as ISIS inspired terrorism Pooty Poot.

He wishes to be viewed as a leader or even an inspirational leader. He sees opportunity. It's quite simple really, what can happen ,will happen and something is happening in the now.