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Is Turkey Chicken?
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/07/14 | William Kevin Stoos

Posted on 10/07/2014 3:27:20 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony

"As Kobani falls to ISIS, the Turkish Army sits idle across the border." October 7, 2014

Years ago, I deployed to Germany with the First Infantry Division and thousands of other troops from the United States and its European NATO allies to participate in REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany). These were war games designed to demonstrate to the Soviet Bloc that an invasion across the Fulda Gap would be met with a powerful response from the alliance and that the allies were prepared to commit substantial forces within a short time to repel such an invasion.

There were troops from many nations—in fact nearly all the NATO allies except one. France, it seemed, wanted the protection of the alliance but did not desire to participate in war games whatsoever. Too provocative to the Russians, they believed. The French were not willing to commit so much as a squad to the war games. In short, they wanted the protection of the alliance but none of the risk. Like others, I was underwhelmed by the French and did not like them much

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: isil; kurds; nato; turkey
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To: nothingnew

His motives are to get hits at Canada Free Press.

My motive here is to point it out.

Pretty simple really.


21 posted on 10/08/2014 12:42:45 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Sean_Anthony

Will chicken Turkey duck?


22 posted on 10/08/2014 12:44:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: humblegunner

Is there something wrong about posting for money, drugs, or illicit sex

for some reason? hmmmm?


23 posted on 10/08/2014 12:45:42 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: humblegunner
His motives are to get hits at Canada Free Press.

My motive here is to point it out.

Pretty simple really.

Yes. Simple. You don't like Canada Free Press for some reason. Maybe you just want to read stories you like by sources you do like and no others. I don't know.

I'll try to skip your repetitive meaningless posts in the future.

FMCDH(BITS)

24 posted on 10/08/2014 12:54:02 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: nothingnew
I'll try to skip your repetitive meaningless posts in the future.

Probably best.

25 posted on 10/08/2014 1:01:47 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
Probably best.

I agree.

You might want to start your own "Anti-blogger Blog". You already have one here, in a sense.

Bye.

FMCDH(BITS)

26 posted on 10/08/2014 1:04:49 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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