Sure it's fiction. But many Turks see fact in anti-US novel

CSM ^ | February 15, 2005 | Yigal Schleifer

[LongElegantLegs]

They're waaaay too sophisticated for spitballs..Maybe they'll throw cheese and borscht?

[RedMonqey]

The turks only hope of winning is if the ""Yanquis" limit their assault to only knive fights.

You don'y wanne be in a fight against a Turk with a blade.

[RedMonqey]

Boron? or Morons?

[Red6]

Turkey = insignificant

If Turkey enters Iraq they will lose. Turkish SF were already embarrassed, captured and held at BIAP (A LTC at that) before they could execute an assassination plot of a regional VIP in northern Iraq.

Turkey has nothing we want except for poverty, corruption, more ignorant people with a marginal economy, a socialist and Muslim mind set.

Turkey! The Cold War is over! You have little strategic importance (Bosporus / Missiles / Air bases on the Soviet South don’t mean much today). In Iraq you would not play and you lost ANY influence you could have had in the future of Iraq or the Kurdish issue.

In the end, the EU will only conditionally accept you as a pseudo-EU member. Don't flatter yourself with self importance.

Red6

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Adds another US diplomat, who declined to be named: "Just like sex sells, anti-Americanism sells right now. Unfortunately, it's nothing to laugh at, because it's damaging to both American national interest and to Turkish national interests. We're really pulling our hair out trying to figure out how to deal with this."

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This guy get's PAID by the USA? He REPRESENTS the USA? No wonder we have an image problem. If he can't figure out how to respond to this B.S., he needs another career path.

How's this for a response:

• America rewards it's friends with friendship.
• Friends don't lie about friends; that's what enemies do.
• America will destroy any enemy which threatens it.
• Screw the Turks. Support the Kurds. Let the Kurds create a free Kurdistan along historical geographical lines in Northern Iraq/Southern Turkey.
• Maybe the EU and Russia will come to Turkey's "defense". Problem for the Turks is, after their "rescue", there'll be no more Turkey.
• What are the "Europeans" going to "defend" Turkey with? Volvos and BMW's? Will Britain be fighting the Yanks too?
• The only thing that scares me about Russia is the possibility of their incompetent military "losing" their hardware to a more competent and dedicated force, say Islamic terrorists. Sure, they can blow up things, and kill innocent women and children, but their centrally-commanded conscripts couldn't fight their way out of a paper sack. How long did it take the USSR at the height of their glorious power to get their butts kicked out of Afghanistan? How many DAYS did it take the USA to kick crap out of Afghanistan's Muslim warlords? Any other questions about Russia?

Defend our friends, screw our enemies, and protect our nation. If the USA doesn't protect it's own interests, if we fail to protect our country, NO ONE else on the face of the earth will care if we die. No one will even remember what this country stood for in light of what revisionist leftist or Islamic historians write. How long did it take the USSR to go from an unstoppable, eternal force of history, to a 50 year historical footnote. History can turn on a dime, people can die, and nations can turn to dust.

And, yeah, I am simplistic. Most military folks are, because you can't "nuance" a bullet after it's been fired at you. And I will not stand for Islamic bullets being fired at Americans abroad or at home, whether they come from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, or Turkey.

SFS