Turkey hasn’t been playing *us.*
They’ve been playing the hand that they have in a tough neighborhood.ran
We’ve known the score with Turkey since they denied 4th ID transit rights into northern Iraq. Arguably, we could have pacified the country and avoided much of the insurgency with the northern pincer of the planned invasion in place.
Turkey will remain politely neutral, just like she did in WWII, until she knows how this will end. Ultimately, that’s good enough for us.