During the early stages of the Islamic State’s siege of the Kurdish town of Kobani, just across the border in Syria, Turkey seemed to be replicating the Soviet Union’s tactic during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, when Nazi German troops fought Polish resistance fighters: Let the belligerents exhaust each other as much as possible before intervening. Such policy may be brutally effective in the short term; in the long term, it is certain to be costly for Turkey.
就在四年前，特别是在穆斯林世界眼中，土耳其被看作一种可以追随的模式。今天，这个国家却陷入防御态势，甚至于害怕自己的记者。伊斯兰国在边境对面的叙利亚包围库尔德城镇Kobani的早期，土耳其似乎是在模仿苏联在1944年华沙起义中波兰抵抗运动与纳粹德国军队作战时的战术：在军事干涉前让交战双方尽可能相互消耗实力。这样的政策可能在短期内效果显著；但从长远看，土耳其肯定会为此付出代价。