Posted on 07/28/2005 10:51:04 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Yes, except there is no such thing as international law. There are some treaties.
Could be the U.S. bases and radar/listening posts? Maybe Turkey's close ties with Israel? Perhaps their highly trained, U.S. supplied military? Or it could be that Turkey was a staunch NATO ally through 40 years of Cold War? PKK is a bunch of terrorists, they should be treated as such, screw the kurds.
The problem started when Winston Churchill screwed the Kurds.
Turkey screwing us in the spring of 2003 in order to beholden themselves to the EU no longer makes them an ally of the US. All future transactions between Turkey and the US should be carried out by the President and Congress on a unilateral basis, ie only if it is advantageous to the US.
Turkey is no longer a staunch ally of ours and should no longer receive any unwarranted US aid.
And when they tell the U.S. to remove Incirlik AB, all our radar/listening posts and nukes and tell NATO to pound sand...?
We got around Turkey's resistence during our initial offense in 2003 (albeit at some cost) and could get around without Incirlik AFB if need be.
Turkey is no longer a staunch ally, Endrogen is now playing both sides of the fence.
Blame collin powell. Sometimes it's good to let host countries know that you're planning an invasion through their territory. It had zero to do with the EU.
Erdogan is a politician. And I would rather have the Turks as allies over the kurds, PKK and Syria any time.
Right, let's trust the kurds, PKK and their syrian financers.
They want action? How many guns and how much ammo should we send the Kurds?
Just send the guns and ammo to syria, it'll have the same effect.
LOL, ex-military supporting PPK against the Turks......google PKK, their syrian ties and their love of suicide bombings. Screw the kurds.
PKK against the Turks.....sorry.
Right, let's trust the kurds, PKK and their syrian financers.
Not trusting Turkey doesn't mean we have to trust the Kurds, PKK and their Syrian financiers.
Exactly, except the corn was PKK terrorists killing Turks, tourists, and Germans. The mighty U.S. ate cornbread until 9/11.
Good point. The Turks are not our enemies, yet. I see no reason to aggravate the situation. Turks don't like suicide bombers any more than we do, letting PKK continue their jihad against Turkish civilians is asinine in the extreme. PKK needs to be shut down....now.
Turkey wants to join the EU and was willing to stand with France and Germany in defiance of our offensive on Sadaam Hussein.
That's what happened, that's why Turkey is no longer a staunch ally of the US. Turkey chose this openly.
Now Turkey needs the US once again as an ally, so they come with hands open. Just like our so-called Euroweenie "allies".
The EU will not admit Turkey, and at the rate they are going they will by Islama fascist in a few decades. anyway.
Unlike you FRiend, I lived in Turkey for years. Unlike you, I know many, many Turks. Unlike you, I worked with the U.S. military in Turkey. Unlike you, I worked with the Turkish military, in Diyarbakir, as they eradicated the PKK (financed by syria) scum that would slither from the mountains in Spring time to kill Turkish civilians. Unlike you, I happen to know that you don't want to screw with the Turks on matters of national pride and independence, which collin powell and his arrogant state department could not begin to understand. Unlike you, I know that the U.S. assured the Turks they would contain PKK after the invasion of Iraq, and thereby gained almost unlimited accesses to Incirlik and Turkish airspace, as well as areas for U.S. special forces deployment.
What a mess, if Turkey get involved in northren Iraq where is not telling what will happen next. I believe our founding father harned us about staying out of situtations like this.
Thanks. Its nice to see someone who can remember stuff that happened more than a year ago on this forum.
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