From the article...
“Erdogan wants power for himself, but he also, sincerely, wants it for his faith. He’s a true believer and a megalomaniac. His ambitions will ultimately lead Turkey, its neighbors and, quite possibly, its blind, bewildered allies into a succession of bloody tragedies, but for now he has real support among half of the population, those for whom the fever of faith is the ultimate intoxicant. He polls better than Hitler did. “Mein Kampf” is no match for the Holy Koran.”
And yet, this is the country that Peterson demands Trump defend per the terms of the NATO treaty ? The current Islamic authoritarian version of Turkey would never have been admitted to NATO.
When a country with which you have mutual defense treaties changes so much internally as to be unrecognizable, are you still bound by the treaty ?
>>“Erdogan wants power for himself, but he also, sincerely, wants it for his faith
Precisely the sort of state-established nature America’s founders recognized and tried to excise when they constituted their 1st amendment, and then secured that with the 2nd.
“ERRORS CEASING TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS PERMITTED TO _______ THEM”
Is it legal to fill in that blank in Turkey today?