We did that in Iraq.
I am heartened somewhat by the Turkey protests. THAT’S who we should be helping. Cause those protesting now are those who thought the new president would be a great guy except he’s just more of the same.
Actually, Erdogan is not more of the same. He is trying to change Turkey into an Islamist state from a secular one. He is undermining the policies put in place by Ataturk, aka, Mustafa Kemal who founded the Turkish Republic in 1923.
In the years following 1926, Mustafa Kemal introduced a radical departure from previous reformations established by the Ottoman Empire. For the first time in history, Islamic law was separated from secular law, and restricted to matters of religion. Mustafa Kemal said
“We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and our legal institutions from the bonds which, even though they are incompatible with the needs of our century, still hold a tight grip on us."
What we are seeing in Istanbul is a clash between Western oriented secularists versus Islamic fundamentalists. We should be supporting the demonstrators not Erdogan who wants to take Turkey backwards.
Absolutely. These people aren't taking forced burka-wearing lightly. Yes, we should be supporting them!
But we are not cause nothing in it for Obama.
I got an e-mail a week ago showing OBl in the 70's with 14 of his closest friends probably in the USA as he was educated here.
They were all wearing brightly colored hippie clothes and there was not even a hint of anything muslim/islamist. ,p> Fast forward years later and see what saudi(no caps necessary) money and the butt of a rifle will do to the mid-east and now around the world.
Islam is a scary cult. we should never forget what it is really all about.