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2005-06-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Turks Now Think The US Better Friend Than EU

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-06-12 12:39|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I would approach this news with a bit of caution. The Turks are hedging their bets. They have also been having high level meetings with the Chicoms. I will post an article I saw last week to the Rantburg Turkey Dept, page 2. When a government jacked us around like the Turks did in OIF, I would not go off and kiss and make up without some verification.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-06-12 13:28|| 2005-06-12 13:28|| Front Page Top

#2 They still fantasize about nuking us, though.

Posted by someone 2005-06-12 14:15|| 2005-06-12 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The Turks are on the take. They'll take from the EU, the US, the ChiComs or anyone else who will give. They have proven to be untrustworthy and it will require a long time to earn trust. We need to do to them exactly what the EU is doing to them: dangle a carrot on a stick indefinitely, just to keep them focused on not being a bother.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-12 14:34|| 2005-06-12 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 AP, we'll do it in an instant. For better or worse, the alternative is that they go to the ChiComs. That'd be even worse for them and us than their little French flirtation. Besides, if they cross us again, Kurdistan becomes a reality. And we should tell them that while we exchange the first hug.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-06-12 14:39|| 2005-06-12 14:39|| Front Page Top

#5 AP is on to something. Turkey has been spending the decade, since the fall of the Soviet Union, building ties with the various Turkman stans of Central Asia. It flows with their historic 'identity'. Check where the national Turkish airlines flies to. An alternate Chicom approach for the Turks can't be any less fulfilling than with the EU.

Posted by Ebbereck Uneregum5631 2005-06-12 15:04|| 2005-06-12 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the Turks are wrong yet again! Looking like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of the Med here. New best friends for Turkey ares the Zionist Entity for awhile and what ever 'stan they can spook.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-12 15:05|| 2005-06-12 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Ask anybody who used to work at Motorola, their feeling about doing business in Turkey.

A mild Motorola press release on the swindle

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-12 15:44|| 2005-06-12 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Amazing, 3dc. Don't know how I missed that in the news. Whatta pack of thieves! Perhaps Erdogan's next visit should be contingent on extradition.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-12 15:51|| 2005-06-12 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 No worse ennemy, no better friend than a Turkish Marine. But there are no Turkish marines.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-12 16:31|| 2005-06-12 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 As I said yesterday, Geography and the distribution of power and economics point to a Turkey aligned with Iraq as the heart of a Middle East Common Market. Importantly, with democracy as the most important prerequisite for membership, it would be a population and economic bloc in competition with the EU. Inclusive to the "Arab" nations, necessarily excluding Israel, and Iran being much as Russia is to the EU: too big, too powerful, and too divisive to belong.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-12 18:47|| 2005-06-12 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 IF that happens, it will be based on natural resources -- not oil so much as WATER, which Turkey has and Iraq needs the uninterrupted flow of.

Posted by too true 2005-06-12 19:30|| 2005-06-12 19:30|| Front Page Top

#12 I suggest applying the same Rule of Thumb that savvy expats learned in Saudi Arabia regards Muzzies:

You can be his friend, but never make the mistake of thinking he's your friend.

Posted by .com 2005-06-12 19:50|| 2005-06-12 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Turks Now Think The US Better Friend Than EU

U.S. to Turks: "How do you like me now, bitch?"

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-12 22:35|| 2005-06-12 22:35|| Front Page Top

#14 ...And this surprises them precisely how?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-06-12 23:01|| 2005-06-12 23:01|| Front Page Top

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