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Untenable Alliance Is No Turkish Delight
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| October 24, 2019
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 10/24/2019 1:52:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
10/24/2019 1:52:43 AM PDT
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Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I would think they’d have the ability to destroy them. Without setting them off, of course.
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posted on
10/24/2019 1:59:58 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
To: Ken H
Even with the mechanisms destroyed, that’s still a lot of weapons grade plutonium that could be used to make new bombs.
Only thing that would work would be packing them in thermite and burning the plutonium. Of course, that would make the surrounding area a radioactive wasteland worse than Chernobyl.
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posted on
10/24/2019 2:07:34 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others.)
To: Ken H
No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the tarmac, load them on planes and fly them out safely over Turkish objections. The bigger question is: Are they actually there?
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posted on
10/24/2019 2:11:27 AM PDT
by
SanchoP
To: Kaslin
There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey,I was at Incirlik too. I hated the place. I never considered Turkey to be our ally.
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posted on
10/24/2019 2:27:27 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
To: SauronOfMordor
Couldn’t they remove the plutonium and send it back to the U.S., then destroy what’s left of the bombs?
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posted on
10/24/2019 2:43:25 AM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: Kaslin
Turkey is in conflict with two NATO member states, the USA and Greece.
Why is Turkey in NATO?
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posted on
10/24/2019 2:50:08 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Islam---At war with Western Civilization for 1400 years.)
To: virgil
Probably far easier to move the bombs intact...
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posted on
10/24/2019 3:26:18 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Why is Turkey in NATO?Because the Deep States on both sides of The Pond wanted it in.
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posted on
10/24/2019 3:31:00 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Kaslin
For at least 4 years, Erdogan has been flashing brilliant red signals that his ultimate plan is to create an Islamic dictatorship in Turkey.
It is incomprehensible that Trump continues to treat him like a respected friend of the USA.
To: zeestephen
I think its totally comprehensible. Its like a hostage negotiator.
To: zeestephen
Hopefully Trump is doing the diplomatic equivalent of saying nice doggie! to a snarling mutt that has suddenly appeared, while looking for a rock.
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posted on
10/24/2019 3:43:22 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster; McGavin999
Re: a snarling mutt that has suddenly appeared
But, that's my main point - this is not sudden.
Erdogan staged a fake coup d’état when Obama was still president.
The mass refugee crisis in Europe was started by Erdogan. He did not stop it until Europe (mainly Germany) agreed to pay him billions of Euros.
This man has been a dangerous enemy for many years.
To: zeestephen
America has a long sad history of accepting snakes into the fold—Saudia Arabia, communist China are examples. Make it clear who is our friend—Israel, Taiwan, kick Turkey out of NATO.
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posted on
10/24/2019 4:06:39 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(Bingo! We have a winner!)
To: zeestephen
No arguments. I think we should have decamped from Turkey when they wouldnt allow us to stage OIF from there in 2003. The handwriting was on the wall then. And I saw a talk from a journalist who barely got himself and his family out with their lives about 3-4 years ago, when Erdogan completely took over any independent media outlets. Very eye open, a view into what real tyranny looks like. They have no business in NATO or the EU.
But Trump has been distracted by the ongoing soft coup, Ill give him a pass for not having extracted our forces after less than 3 years.
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posted on
10/24/2019 4:20:50 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
That 2003 spat should have been reason enough to create a Kurdistan in Northern Iraq
But State department critters and communists are always around to make sure we make the worst of friends such as Sauds and Bahamians and abandon the best such as Iranians or Cubans
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posted on
10/24/2019 4:56:19 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified e)
To: Kaslin
Under Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has become NATO’s only non-democratic nation. It’s also NATO’s only Muslim-majority member.
To: zeestephen
As a member of the middle east Turkey belongs in a box with a padlock. The only country to voluntarily do so is Israel. The rest have to be forced. Taking back part of Syria from the Kurds is their way of keeping the Kurds in their virtual box.
Swapping him for a different dictator would be complicated. Getting a moderate elected there is unlikely considering the religion and history.
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posted on
10/24/2019 6:03:48 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
To: FreedomPoster
allow us to stage OIF from there in 2003.
I was in Iraq in 2003-2004. I have always believed and taught that this was the reason so many of Saddam's troops and weapons were able to dissipate into thin air. If we had come in from both directions, we would have captured many of those units in the field and been able to properly control the situation.
Because of Turkey, we had to send the troops all the way back to Kuwait, and gave them more time to prepare the insurgency.
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posted on
10/24/2019 6:23:38 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
10/24/2019 7:39:41 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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