Turkey's Humiliation in Syria

My Asia Times colleague MK Bhadrakumar writes of "The Rise and fall of Turkey's Erdogan" in Asia Times today. Per our July 22 discussion just posted, Turkey got the short end of the stick in the Syrian stalemate. Ambassador Bhadrakumar writes:

Someone is needed to plunge a sharp knife deep into Bashar's back. Jordan's king can't do the job; he measures up only to Bashar's knees. The Saudi and Qatari sheikhs with their ponderous, flabby body are not used to physical activity; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization prefers to be left alone, having burnt its fingers in Libya with a bloody operation that borders on war crime. That leaves Turkey. (...)