[mvonfr]

My thoughts : Obama is in the situation where he cannot say YES or NO to the request. Saying YES shows major weakness to be used in the election campaign against the democrats; Saying NO means provoking the Turks into the next step which may be dropping out of NATO, taking over the US base, or a variation of a "student" action a la the Iranians in 1980.. again, this is not helpful at all in the campaign.

So Obama has to play for time, send "positive signals", pretend to work out formalities, and hope that the matter will get delayed till after the elections... not at all obvious that Erdogan will like being stalled.

One question to FR: the entire matter of extradition of a political figure: was there *ANY* precedent in the US history?

[dfwgator]

Obama is Erdogan’s little bitch.

[dfwgator]

F the Turks, we’d be better off with them out of NATO.

[Paladin2]

I say we send Hussein.

[FreedomPoster]

The nukes should have been removed 10 years ago. Heck, the entire U.S. presence.

Another Bush failure.

[Gen.Blather]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_extradited_from_the_United_States

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I’ll give you a positive signal, boys.

[butlerweave]

They’ll have to wait until Obama is finished his vacation

[butlerweave]

and if Obama sends him back he’ll have the Blood of 10’s of thousands on his hands

[beethovenfan]

Nancy-boy caves again.