Posted on 06/07/2015 3:40:00 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
While it’s possible that Erdogan merely is a power- hungry populist and not a true-believing Islamist, I don’t think that it matters o e whit. It is often claimed by anti-Castro Cubans that Castro wanted to be a caudillo but didn’t want to meet the fate of most Latin-American dictators (pissing off the U.S. interests that supported him and then getting overthrown) and thus decided to play the Communism game and have the USSR as his sugar daddy instead while blaming all of his country’s ills on those eeeevil American capitalists. My reaction to that is, I don’t care what Castro’s motivations were, he installed a Communist regime that has been violating human rights for 55+ years. Well, similarly, I don’t care why Erdogan is establishing an Islamist state and supporting Islamist terrorists, the fact that he does it is enough for me to oppose him.
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