Slavoj Zizek writes in the
New Statesman (U.K.) about what he believes is
actually happening in Iraq and Syria. See his conclusion:
The “total war” against Isis should not be taken seriously – they don’t really mean it. We are definitely dealing not with the clash of civilisations (the Christian west versus radicalised Islam), but with a clash within each civilisation: in the Christian space it is the US and western Europe against Russia, in the Muslim space it is Sunnis against Shias. The monstrosity of the Islamic State serves as a fetish covering all these struggles in which every side pretends to fight Isis in order to hit its true enemy.
There is some truth in his allegations. The article added one data point I didn't have before, it reports:
Countless number of Isis injured fighters enter the Turkish territory and are being admitted in the military hospitals.
If true, Turkey is a
de facto ally of ISIS, regardless of what Erdogan says for Western consumption. We have suspected this.
