Turkey is the wrong ally at the wrong time in the fight against ISIS

Sometimes when there’s bad news you just have to grit your teeth and bear it. Unfortunately, that’s what the U.S. has to do when it comes to the Syrian intervention underway from our erstwhile NATO ally Turkey.
The good news is, Turkey’s meddlesome ambitions are sharply constrained — not just by the U.S. and its allies, but by America’s adversaries, too.
Turkey, which continues to lurch further into authoritarianism and nostalgia for its bygone Ottoman Empire, recen