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Just What the Middle East Needs: Turkey’s Getting an Aircraft Carrier
The Daily Beast ^ | 01.05.16 | Thomas Seibert

Posted on 01/05/2016 11:35:14 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 01/05/2016 11:35:14 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

It will liven up the party and ensure continuing balance and fairness between factions in the Middle East. Stability there is in the interest of enemies of freedom.


2 posted on 01/05/2016 11:50:38 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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WWIII coming...


3 posted on 01/05/2016 11:53:34 PM PST by Netz
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Turkey has opened up a base in Qatar, we’ve got one there too I think or have access to use one there.

Libya is actually a proxy war with Qatar, Turkey and Sudan vs. Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt according to various analysis.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/01/regional-powers-fight-prozy-war-libya.html


4 posted on 01/06/2016 12:00:53 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Just like giving the local chapter of the Crops and Bloods a supply of armored personnel carriers. And why? FOLLOW THE MONEY CRONY CAPITALIST CASH.


5 posted on 01/06/2016 12:12:39 AM PST by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Owning an aircraft carrier is one thing.

Manning the aircraft carrier with the right pilots, mechanics, and other necessary crew -- stocking the aircraft carrier with the right combat jet aircraft -- supplying and resupplying the aircraft carrier with food, fuel and munitions -- deploying the aircraft carrier for a long period of time in a remote area -- using the aircraft carrier as an effective weapon -- protecting the aircraft carrier from attack and counter attack by enemy forces -- is another thing.

If the Turks stupid enough to not realize this now, they will discover it in the near future.

I am therefore not particularly concerned by the revelation in this article.

6 posted on 01/06/2016 12:48:00 AM PST by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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Not to mention the cost of the fleet of F-35s and the tech needed to make deck plates resistant to extreme heat from the 35s jet exhaust (something even the US is having trouble with).

Sounds sort of like some one got a Great Idea and started to plug various pieces into it without any thought of how all of it is supposed to work and work together; probably felt really good about he whole thing, ran down to his boss and they both got excited with visions of restoring the Caliphate, ran over to Erdogan and had a party followed by a press release, and now you know the rest of the story ...


7 posted on 01/06/2016 1:29:31 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
That's the Leftists "World Peace Agenda".
"Mutually Assured Destruction" down to the last bullet.
And then the WORLD will come together and all agree on Peace. BLAH, Blah, blah.
8 posted on 01/06/2016 1:43:55 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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Great and now our "ally" turkey will now attack attack the ypg more(a kurdish group that even allows jews to join them to fight isis) Picture of the group turkey is bombing the most They fight side by side with christians and jews Heres a jew who joined them to fight isis A female jew who joined ypg to fight isis And we support turkey who attack the only force that has defeated isis over and over
9 posted on 01/06/2016 2:20:10 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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Sorry wrong picture, thats not the jewish woman i was talking about this is her
10 posted on 01/06/2016 2:23:57 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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Pictures of Ypg after sending scores of isis scum to hell Dont worry all the corpses in these pictures are of isis members The kurds kiled so many isis members here they had to export the corpses with trucks so they would not rot the whole place up THis is the group turkey our great ally attacks
11 posted on 01/06/2016 2:31:41 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: Zakeet

To which I’d emphasize: That Turkish carrier will sortie only if the Israeli submarine service wants it to sortie.


12 posted on 01/06/2016 2:49:01 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: The Right wing Infidel

Turkey.. the seat of the last caliph? Not my ally. I am not fooled by their propaganda pics.


13 posted on 01/06/2016 2:53:15 AM PST by momincombatboots (Iraq 3.0.. Try and look surprised. Prayers for my brothers and sisters in arms as global pawns.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
I guess they're bored with just killing Jews by land.

Or they really want to play bath time with Vlad.

14 posted on 01/06/2016 2:57:35 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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....well....Turkey IS where the Book of Revelation is focused......the seven churches from Revelation are ALL in Turkey. Not Rome. Not Jerusalem. Turkey.


15 posted on 01/06/2016 3:09:46 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Israel needs a few more artificial reefs off its coast...... nice of the turks to buy it for em.....


16 posted on 01/06/2016 3:18:28 AM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: momincombatboots

Ataturk did good things, he abolished the caliphate and tried to secularize turkey away from Islam , but like in every Muslim nation that gets democracy they always vote the most fanatic muslim they canfind (see egypt who they voted when they got democracy after the arab spring)

What did turkey do with democracy? Vote AKP a party that supports the muslim brotherhood in egypt and is lead by Erdogan who wants to turn turkey back into the stone age

Muslims needs a military dictatorship like Sisi in egypt,Atakaturk in turkey and Shah Pahlavi in Iran


17 posted on 01/06/2016 3:20:02 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: sukhoi-30mki

All of this fear about a single ship that will be completed in 5 years? Is the sky falling chicken littles?

Is it possible that this irrational fear is misplaced? How about how many muslim babies will be spit out in 5 years in Europe and America?

We are worried about 1 ship while millions upon millions of islamic spawn will be spewing from the wombs of multi-wives to saturate our populations and destroy our way of life?

There are more important things than a ship that can be destroyed with one missile but panic exists over its completion 5 years in the future.


18 posted on 01/06/2016 3:29:57 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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Total ban on muslim immgration is what needs to be done and a ban on Islam ,

Oh and its legal under usa law

“U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens (f)Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.”


19 posted on 01/06/2016 3:46:10 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: sukhoi-30mki
"Trans-continental capabilities"?


20 posted on 01/06/2016 4:33:25 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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