Don't know but I've a feeling Flynn's stock just dropped a bit. That is unless you think this is Trumps opening move on the world stage.
Just show what a complete idiot Flynn is in real life.
Turkey is the gateway for all troubles in Syria. Turkey wants (all of) the Kurds as dead as Saddam H.
Turkey is the gateway for selling stolen (or pirated if you like) oil from Iraq. The profits go to the head honcho’s family.
Turkey is rapidly becoming a Muslim based terror factory.
Turkey is far from stable - stable countries don’t have their citizens setting off car bombs all the time.
Turkey is no friend of the West and hasn’t been for the better part of a decade.
Add as many more as you like....
Turkey is a lost cause with Erdogan pushing past Turkish Empire holdings in Iraq and Syria, and expressing a desire to retake them....along with his increasingly Muslim Extremist attitudes in the region....
Cut him loose.
Turkey should never have been admitted as a NATO member, IMO.
What does Netanyahu believe about Gulen, first of all?
Second, media reports made Gulen’s movement out as rather heroic and the Turkish leader’s response as plenty bloodthirsty.
What are the facts that prove Flynn’s case, and what is it doing in the papers at this point? Hmmm..
To which I say .. Nuts!!
“We need to see the world from Turkey’s perspective.”
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Ahh...no we don’t, General Flynn. And we shouldn’t. And, hopefully, the Trump folks will cut you loose from any position of responsibility in the Trump administration ASAP!
Wasn’t that some kind of astrturf deal to expose opposition?
Did you read the article? Why has Turkey become a bad actor? Self preservation perhaps? Obama is aligned with the MB. Why was the first call to POTUS elect Trump from Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? The puzzle pieces are all there. Put them together and go Hmmmm like I did.
Erdogan is an Islamist bent on making himself the Caliph.
I hope Flynn is not as big a fool as he sounds from this piece.
Erdogan is a tyrant and a Muslim extremist.
Our goal should be to hand Erdogan over to the Kurdish rebels.
Gulen is a radical islamist, just like Erdogan. This is a fight similar to Communists vs. Fascists in Germany. Trump should figure out how to get Gulen and Erdogan to destroy each other.
Yep.
Erdogan is Islamist slime. It's too bad last summer's coup failed (that is, assuming it wasn't just a dramatic performance designed to consolidate Erdogan's hold on power).
Erdogan's son Bilal has a lucrative business reselling ISIS oil on the world market. Obama resisted interdicting ISIS's oil caravans due to loss of life and global warming due to the huge fires.
Turkey should be expelled from NATO.
I would hope Gen Flynn has connected with some DoD personnel who were stationed in Turkey. Unfortunately, the princes in the puzzle palace think attending a few cocktail parties in Ankara and meeting a couple of carpet dealers qualifies them as experts on the country.
Yet, we have so many on FR already "concerned" that Trump will be an idiot in foreign relations....pathetic.
Pogo was right....plenty of enemy right in our own camp.
Turkiye for some decades was a “source of stability” but now only seeks the stability of the overarching Caliphate in Istanbul. Turkey in control of the Sunni ME will be as antagonistic and dangerous to America as is Iran.
Turkey is for thanksgiving, the other Turkey can F off :)