I understand that.
Things like this are handled with our allies by the SecState and official visits and discussed once they go behind closed doors all the time by this country.
Hell the Dems preach “diplomacy diplomacy diplomacy” all the time.
Only NOW they decide to go and grandstand with a resolution?
What does it achieve other than to fan the flames on an already tense situation?
What does it accomplish that a visit by Dr. Rice or VP Cheney can’t?
Don’t get me wrong...I don’t like the boorish behavior by the supporters of the “religon of peace” crowd in Turkey either.
But there is a secular government in place right now and they are resisting the push by the Muslim extremeists.
What we did with that resolution was give the extremeists more ammo and motivation.
The state department incompetence (see Colin Powel) laid the ground work giving Turkey the ability to deny US use of Turkey as a staging area.
The secularists have never had enough power. The treatment of american citizens during the pope’s visit with the echumenical patriarch was practically governmentally supported.
Rice has been a real dunsel in that region.
What really needs to happen requires spines and manhood. Something desperatly lacking in Washington DC.