We had a chance in the early days of the pretend War on Terror, to fortify and provide the Kurds with the tools to gain their own freedom as they have been promised over decades. We didn’t, we bowed to the Turks, who have no business being in NATO, or being called an ally.
“We had a chance in the early days of the pretend War on Terror, to fortify and provide the Kurds with the tools to gain their own freedom as they have been promised over decades. We didn’t, we bowed to the Turks, who have no business being in NATO, or being called an ally.”
NATO made a Faustian bargain when it allowed Turkey into NATO. At the time it did make some sense: Put NATO on the southern border of the USSR. And, as long as Turkey was secular in its government, and it didn’t do stupid things vis-a-vis its neighbors, it seemed to work rather well. But, Turkey decided to invade a neighbor (Cyprus) in the mid-1970s, and when the US criticized that action, Turkey demanded that the US vacate its bases in Turkey (which, we pretty much did; however, a couple were allowed to remain, in a kind of uneasy agreement). Then, Turkey decided that secularism wasn’t its cup of tea, after all; and it decided an islamist focus should be the way forward. That’s when the relationship really began to sour.