Exactly my thinking. Remind the Turkish leadership that you will use deadly force. That if they don’t want to see hundreds, maybe thousands of dead in the streets around the base they had better keep the protesters back, ‘cause if/when they hit the fence line, my troops have authorization and they will use it. We will not surrender no matter what bammy says because it is an illegal order - we cannot legally turn over nuclear weapons to a third party. We will surrender when we are out of ammo and our bayonets are dulled on the bones of your dead. Maybe not even then.
Turks have not only used its air force to strafe demonstrators in the past, but also napalm ... life is very cheap in Turkey, like all muslim nations. Numbers of dead Turks is irrelevant to the Turkish gov.
This assumes Erdogan cares about those protesters. Uh uh. He would love muzzies to see 1,000s dead by U.S. soldiers.
Would be nice if it worked that way.
If we use deadly force our guys will get court martialed and end up in jail. If we don't Isis winds up with the nukes we look pathetic to the world.Meanwhile here in the US hillary talks about student debt and healthcare....
Bottome line the regime has thought this one out well. They win either way.