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2010-07-09 The Grand Turk
Obama encourages Europe to ally with Turkey
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Posted by Phealing Snereque9635 2010-07-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Why?
Posted by 3dc 2010-07-09 00:47||   2010-07-09 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The First Muslim US President Barack Obama said that Europe's reluctance to allow Turkey into the European Unions may have pushed Ankara to "look elsewhere,"

Hey Euro cousins, how's that Hope & Change coming along now?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-09 01:16||   2010-07-09 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Euro cousins, how's that Hope & Change coming along now?

Don't laugh. One day it will be as bad in Europe as it is here.
Posted by gorb 2010-07-09 01:55||   2010-07-09 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 If, hypothetically, Obama wanted to reward Turkey diplomatically for the Gaza flotilla stunt, what would he do differently?
Posted by Phealing Snereque9635 2010-07-09 07:29||   2010-07-09 07:29|| Front Page Top

#5 We know their history and record my dear Obama .. No thanks
Posted by Granpaw 2010-07-09 11:28||   2010-07-09 11:28|| Front Page Top

#6 If you don't comply, the US may sue you.
Posted by Highlander 2010-07-09 12:25||   2010-07-09 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anyone else find strange to this man's tone, his phrasing?

"Perhaps the desire to flex muscles played a role"

Passive voice, weaselly bureaucratese ("played a role"): is this a head of state speaking, or a mid-level bureaucrat in Geneva?

"If they do not feel like they're being treated as part of the European family, it's natural that they would look elsewhere for alliances"

Now he sounds like a family shrink, or some kind of community youth advocate mediating between, say, the cops and kids' gangs.

Who is this guy?
Posted by lex 2010-07-09 13:59||   2010-07-09 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Who is this guy?

Why the conscience of Europe, and indeed the globe planet.
Posted by regular joe 2010-07-09 14:51||   2010-07-09 14:51|| Front Page Top

#9 The Great Mediator. Between sinful, arrogant America and a hurt and angry World.
Posted by lex 2010-07-09 16:05||   2010-07-09 16:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Golly lex, with that kind of writing you'd fit right to Helen Thomas' old seat in the WH pressroom.
Posted by regular joe 2010-07-09 16:19||   2010-07-09 16:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Some folks should really visit sites like Michael Totten's once in a while. Not that it'd help since they don't seem to be able to buy a clue, rent one, or even accept one if given it for free. Does Obama realize that Erdogan is pushing for an Islamic state and that is how he got into office? They arrested or removed the people that supported the secular government. In recent years, murders of Christians and others is on the rise. I think I read that 4 Catholic priests have been murdered along with people leaving Islam. Just can't remember where I read that though I think it was yesterday. Any way, Obama thinks they are looking else where because of Europe? They aren't looking else where at all. They are moving to different policies because that is what power is currently in office in Turkey, supported by the growing majority. Europe has nothing to do with it.
Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-09 17:30||   2010-07-09 17:30|| Front Page Top

#12 "Does Obama realize that Erdogan is pushing for an Islamic state and that is how he got into office?"

Of course.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-09 18:46||   2010-07-09 18:46|| Front Page Top

#13 DoesObama realize that Erdogan is pushing for an Islamic state and that is how he got into office?

I imagine our president thinks Islamic states are charmingly quaint and authentic. Remember, he spent his formative years in a village in Malaysia, mothered by a working anthropologist and fathered by a company man. He was well-off and safe compared to some of the others... and he has no concept how nasty Islamic societies can be to the powerless. Even when he visited Pakistan in the 80s, he was the guest of a man powerful enough to send his son to a name university in America, and secular enough to do so.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-09 22:32||   2010-07-09 22:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Whoops! I forgot to mention, good in-lines, Phealing Snereque9635. The last two bits about Israel and Sharia-compliance, particularly. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-09 22:36||   2010-07-09 22:36|| Front Page Top

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