President Donald Trump says our “great ally” Turkey had contemplated joining the war against Israel, and, ultimately, the United States. “Maybe they didn’t do that because of me,” the president said on his state visit to Ankara, “but they could have gotten into the fight on the other side.”

The other side? The side of Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist organizations that have murdered hundreds of Americans? The side of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in Iran, the people the president was bombing, even as he offered these remarks? If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was contemplating joining forces with Shia extremists, it’s fair to say he’s an exceptionally unreliable ally, at best.