[muawiyah]

Fallaci is still fighting over the details of the agreement between Venice and the Turks regarding who had what communal rights, and where could they stick 'em in Lebanon.

Uhh, Venice has been "out of business" for about 300 years.

Her stuff is, as it were, "dated". The Turks changed a lot of stuff you know.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Yes, and their regressing back to those halcyon days when they marauded through the Anatolian peninsula, the Balkans, and central Europe.

Her point, namely, that these accession talks with Turkey will spell the death knell of Europe-at least, as Europe has been known historically, Enlightenment Europe-is completely accurate.

PM Erdogan is a democratically elected fascist, and Kemalism is all but a dead-letter.