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2007-07-30 Europe

Turkey prepared to spurn U.S. alliance: advisor

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-30 11:13|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "Our allies should help us with the threat, which is clear and present. If an ally is not helping you, you either question their integrity or their ability."

Rather sounds like what we thought about Turkey when it was time to kick Saddam's ass, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2007-07-30 12:24|| 2007-07-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 good point. But alot of countries that should've helped us didn't. They knew it was a mistake to think you could get these people to negotiate reasonably. If the Kurds are committing terrorist-like acts then arrest whose responsible. Warn Turkey not to interfere in Iraq. All of this takes tremendous balls which our government does not have. Baby boomin' cowards.

Posted by Squinty Shaviting7720 2007-07-30 12:51|| 2007-07-30 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 I say, thinking of the 4thID, f... them and the horse they are riding!

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-30 13:38|| 2007-07-30 13:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Aside from the fact this is from the Canadian press, it echoes similar RB posts over the past few days. Clearly the Turks are mumbling if not rumbling.

Anyway - this quote from the article provides an interesting point of departure:

More than 40,000 Turks have died in the 30-year-old war with the PKK and 76 soldiers have been killed this year alone, the latest in a clash in northeast Turkey on Friday. Mourners have shouted anti-U.S. slogans at recent funerals.

Maybe someone, say a reporter, could parse the stats further and see whether post-war Iraq is a greater or lesser threat to Turkey? IIRC, we also did a bit of a favor in tracking and bundling Ocalan as well.

I wonder if the Turks don't have other motives than those stated. That wouldn't be a diplomatic nicety of the MME, would it? Could it?

Posted by Halliburton - Reality Imposition Division 2007-07-30 19:02|| 2007-07-30 19:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Let them spurn us. The EU is welcoming them with wide open arms, no?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-30 21:47|| 2007-07-30 21:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Turkey has been trying to eliminate everything Kurdish from the Kurds in Turkey for the last 70 years. They have no sympathy. It also doesn't seem they'd make a very good member of the European Union, and I'm beginning to doubt their usefulness in NATO. The Turks are like just about every other muzzlem country - they expect the rest of the world to allow them to act any way they want to, with no consequences, both internally and internationally. It ain't gonna happen. Turkey may very soon find it has no US bases in Turkey (they've all moved to Iraq), and US "foreign aid" to Turkey consists of two woolen blankets and a bar of soap.

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