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| Turks join US efforts against Iran |
| 2006-01-05 |
| We may want to interpret this as a quiet signal that Incirlik is in play if we need it. Turkey has quietly agreed to join a U.S.-led effort against Iran's nuclear weapons program. Turkish diplomats said the Foreign Ministry has agreed to support the Bush administration's effort to censure Iran for its refusal to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The diplomats said Ankara would also warn of the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. "In my view, Iran is irreversibly bent on having nuclear weapons," Turkish ambassador to the United States Faruk Logoglu said. Logoglu, regarded as Turkey's leading diplomat, told the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on Dec 19 that Iran has sought nuclear weapons. He called for a dialogue between Teheran and Washington in an effort to head off a showdown. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #11 I can just see the head Iranian porKoranimal crying in his 6 year old wife's lap. Let's just hope they wipe this scum's nukes off the planet. Cause of the pIslamics get atomics folks, it's all over. |
| Posted by: Muhamhead Screwed My Pig Allah 2006-01-05 23:03 |
| #10 Turkey joins US? Extremely wishful thinking, I'm afraid. Iran, like Iraq, is a moslem, fraternal country for moslem Turkey (does anybody of you remember 2003 and how Turks dealt with you?) with sizeable Kurd minority, longing, like their brothers in Iraq and Turkey, for independence for decades. |
| Posted by: Matt K. 2006-01-05 23:07 |
| #9 Unaware of the effects of a new weapon, called the Negatronic beam, jointly developed by the US & Israel, Iranian strongman Ahmadisnutz made his daily greeting to his lackeys and hangers-on... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-01-05 15:30 |
| #8 If Turkey was smart they would have worked with the US long ago. US prepares for an invasion of Iraq from the South while Turkey invades from the North and takes over the entire place. Repeat in Syria with Israel acting to draw forces South. No, much better to wait for the French to suddenly love them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-01-05 12:24 |
| #7 Funny how a strong sense of self-preservation eventually kicks in, even with the most useless of allies. Had this happened six months ago, I'd be inclined towards a more generous assessment of Turkish statecraft. As it is, this is merely another BGO (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious). Less secular Arab nations (and the ever-dithering Europe) will just have to find out the hard way when it comes to the price paid for letting Iran go nuclear. This is one of the biggest diplomatic no-brainers in recent history. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-01-05 11:27 |
| #6 Didn't they quietly agree to join a US-led effort against Saddam? That certainly worked out well in the end. I think the only thing that Yippy Er'Dogman has ever shown anyone is that he can't be trusted. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-05 11:17 |
| #5 Turkey needs to reevaluate their future. They will never get into the EU, so what is left? Turkey should get UN permission and blessing to handle Syria and then conquer them. This would put them in position to make some decisions regarding Syrian Kurds and make them heros of the west for dealing with Syria so the west didn't have to. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-01-05 11:10 |
| #4 Our tax dollars at work. At least it shows that we are posturing to take action against Iran. It won't slow them down, but I'll sleep sounder. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-01-05 09:38 |
| #3 I do hope we didn't pay anything, rather Turkey recognized its own interests as coinciding with the U.S. in this matter. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-05 09:37 |
| #2 I wonder how much we paid for the access rights? I start the bidding at $3 billion. |
| Posted by: Jake-the-Peg 2006-01-05 08:01 |
| #1 That's good thinking on Turkey's part, since all of Turkey is withing range of Iran's current missile stocks. Will this give them access to the new missile defense systems? Or do they already have all that shit since they are in NATO? I'm really glad the EU snubbed those guys. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-01-05 07:55 |