Posted on 07/18/2016 10:49:29 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
IIRC Obama just pledged support for Erdogan a couple of days ago. If so, I wonder where that leaves USA foreign policy vis a vis Turkey...
I bet Obama is helping, and I bet he can find those emails.
So sad so many are going to die.
If a Republican was President now, we would hear the media saying how crappy they are. Of course for some reason Obama and Hillary get a pass.
Tough to say how this will shake out. Erdogan has pretty much destroyed the military, so less support for ISIS, but more of a chance for him to set up his own Revolutionary Guard. Getting rid of the judiciary might seem to make it easier to institute sharia, but it might make the average Turk nervous. The same goes for the civil servants.
C'MON!!!
“I wonder where that leaves USA foreign policy vis a vis Turkey...”
It depends mightily upon how the grifters in charge can figure out a way or ways to profit from it.
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/putin-erdogan-meeting/27863368.html
In the bin, with rest of Obama’s foreign initiatives.
The video i am linking is very disturbing and grotesque.
http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=d9209b0844c9
I think a lot of people get stuck on the idea of Erdogan being there for pumping up Islam in Turkey. When you go back to his days of Mayor of Istanbul....he was there to swing deals and usher in crony capitalism. Friends of Erdogan are all insiders who benefit greatly from real estate deals and government approved gimmicks.
Erdogan simply plays the Islam card over and over, using the naive public in Turkey to think he’s all pro-Islam, but it’s all connected back to his cronyism game. Look at the number of people who are terminated for gov’t service who were budget or audit employees. Large number. This will help bring in his people and ensure a decade of great insider business deals.
I love this one:
While NATO will be watching the Turkish government’s actions carefully, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, “it’s too soon to say that their membership is at risk.”
[Turkey purges more than 8,000 police officers, officials]
Western governments are balancing support for the democratically elected government of Turkey against a military coup with growing concern that it is using the attempted overthrow to crack down in undemocratic ways.
... Undemocratic ways, ladies and gentlemen! Undemocratic ways!
But it was intevitable. It was inevitable that Ataturk’s movement would fail in the long run. The whole foundation that Ataturk based his idea on was the forced repression of faith. He banned new mosques, he banned the wearing of the Fez by men, he banned the hijab for women. Now you think those are great ideas, but... what would you do a President single-handedly declared that churches would now be suppressed, and that your religion was a backwards thing to be practiced privately and in shame? That’s essentially what Ataturk did to a nation of Muslims. It simply wasn’t going to work forever, even with the Army enforcing it by military dictatorship.
You cannot long suppress a religious people. They’ll win eventually. Kemalism is dead. It could only succeed with constant, brutal military oppression. Even when that’s the case, faith tends to win in the long run (even faiths we don’t like).
Interesting.
when you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die.
Boy, what I wouldn’t give to make a list of 20,000 to “purge” from our government.
I’m surprised the number isn’t more like 66,666 given Obama and Erdogam’s fixation on all things evil and Satanic...
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