Are those who gave life to ISIS now trying to kill it?

On the eve of the 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the rapid movement that began after the new war on terror declared by Obama signals that a long-lasting war will unfold in our region. The US is forming a coalition made up of countries of the region and planning a struggle against ISIS that was foreseen from the start to be long. The US Secretary of Defense first, and then Secretary of State John Kerry, visited Turkey as well as the other countries of the region.

In these visits Turkey is also expected to join this coalition with all its possible strength and support. However, the intent displayed regarding the expectation of the US, which declared from the start that it would not set foot on land, of the countries of the region, and especially of Turkey, also reveals the nature and scope of this war. All the talks, and especially the traffic directed at Turkey, resemble the contacts before the invasion launched against Iraq in 2003.

But this time things are a little different. The campaign against Saddam was highly doubtful, and the occupation of Iraq was paved the way for by pretexts of evidence later fully confirmed to be fabricated. Now, however, nobody doubts that ISIS is, one way or another, a dangerous terrorist organization harmful to everyone. The country that ISIS's existence and activities harm in the first degree is without doubt Turkey. Therefore the driving away of the ISIS scourge is, above all, Turkey's desire.

However, the picture is not so clear about how reliable the coalition set in motion to drive away this scourge is, and how much it really wants this scourge driven away.

Are they trying to finish off ISIS, or are different plans being carried out thanks to ISIS? To what was ISIS's video shows inviting whom?

For one thing, in order to drive ISIS away, it must first be well known, and the conditions that gave birth to it well analyzed. As for determining this, there is no substantive approach either from the US or from the countries joining the coalition the US has invited. We said it before. ISIS is, above all, a result brought about by the existence of Assad in Syria, which has turned into an organization of terror and intrigue.

That the international humanitarianism that Assad, who for 3.5 years has been slaughtering more than two hundred thousand of his own people in the most dreadful ways, has never been able to stir into action is now rapidly stirred into action by the murders committed through ISIS's video shows is truly very telling.

There is no doubt that ISIS constitutes an extremely harmful threat and danger for Turkey. But what is ISIS? Without yet being able to answer this, would a war waged against it not be, at best, shaking a fist at the darkness?

Undoubtedly a worse possibility is that some people are trying, this time, to put us on the ISIS minibus and make us the primary target of an instability that will last a long time in the region.

As long as the coup regime of Egypt, Assad and the organizations that are extensions of Maliki continue to exist in the region, the infrastructure of ISIS and similar structures will never collapse. If one ISIS ends, other ISISes will surely emerge. Within the coalition the US is trying to build there are also the Gulf countries, who are in any case the primary parties responsible for the political conditions that gave birth to ISIS. Moreover, the European countries, the US first among them, have no objection to the policies they pursue, especially in Egypt.

Let us ask a simple question here, if you like: did the number of people ISIS killed in Iraq exceed the number of Egyptian demonstrators killed in just a single day, August 14, 2013, in Rabia Square in Egypt? That those who showed no reaction at all to these inhuman events in Egypt, or to Assad's massacres, which cannot be compared in any way, come today launching a great mobilization in response to ISIS's provocations is not a question that can be glossed over.

Turkey is certainly trying to analyze the ISIS scourge in the best way and puts forward its own theses on healthier measures to be taken against it. That is why it approaches with caution this coalition that is being put together in a rush, like salvaging goods from a fire.

Just look: CHP Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu suddenly displays, on the question of joining the coalition against ISIS, a "positive opposition" approach that he has never shown toward the government until now. He says if ISIS is to be fought, we are ready to support. What might be the reason for this tear-jerking declaration of support? It is neither a holiday nor a picnic, is it! Do you really know much about what ISIS is?

A struggle against ISIS is absolutely necessary, but what if this struggle requires confronting Assad more? Will Kılıçdaroğlu continue this support?

This is another question whose answer we will await with curiosity.