Posted on 08/13/2016 5:43:44 AM PDT by detective
On Feb. 14, 1979, less than one month after the shah of Iran’s exile, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by Iranian militants. Within hours, it was returned to U.S. hands. Now on notice that our diplomats were stationed on a vulnerable outpost in a sea of anti-Americanism, the Carter administration considered, but rejected, closing the embassy. In October, President Carter permitted the shah – despised by Iranians and the regime that replaced his – to enter the United States. Days later, Iranians climbed the embassy gates again, took the Americans there hostage and demanded the shah’s return, beginning a 444-day crisis.
There are no do-overs in history, but there are lessons. The 1979 hostage crisis should have taught us the importance of proactively responding to obvious threats and removing vulnerable targets — a lesson that should be applied now if there are U.S. nuclear weapons based in Turkey.
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Lets get our nuclear weapons out of the control of Obama. For Israels sake.
Those nukes should have been shipped to Germany as soon as the coup began.
The more I filter it through the brain bucket the more I am convinced there are no nukes in Turkey
Can we not refuel our bombers, are our ICBMS pop rockets?
The traditional problem in Turkey is it is the gate to the west and the fence to the east
Now doncha go given him no ideeas.......
Would that not be the final irony? A war between the Clinton Foundation and the 0bama Foundation. This needs popcorn. Lots of it.
Reminds me of a modern day version of Mesa Verde. History does repeat. One needs to remember the Anasazi LOST following that strategy...
Get the nukes out ...or... declare Incirlik to be American territory and defend it.
Obama thinks if things Blowup he’ll get to stay ,but does he know he’s done in January no matter what happens
It’s easy to put nukes into a cooperative country that is offering you an air base, storage & security. Try getting them out when that country becomes antagonistic and will probably refuse passage to the cargo aircraft (C-5, C-17) necessary to move them.
Unless we can shackle them to our own jets and run them the heck out of there in a single mass scramble... Probably to Greece.
To be able to give the nukes to the Turks and tell Americans that the Turks overran the base before they could be removed.
“On 22 September 2015 the monastery was closed to the public for the duration of one year.”
LA Times a little late commenting on the subject.
It would be good to think we’ve handled this situation correctly.
But, with this CiC and JCoS, it’s difficult...
Given that a storage depot for special weapons is typically far underground, Concord NWS and Travis WSA come to mind, the weapons may still be in Incirlik or not.
The keepers within the arsenal can always dial one down to sub-k yield and take out everything in storage to prevent capture. Former associates in certain military knowledge specialties outside of the nuclear weapons field were also subject to certain harsh provisions to avoid capture, in prevention of security breaches. Barring total collapse of standards, someone will stand fast and turn the switch.
Let’s get out of Turkey, period.
Screw Turkey. Send them to Greece, back Greece in Cyprus and the Kurds in Turkey.
If we ship them to Germany, the lunatic Merkel will hire “Migrants” to watch over them. Yes, I’m being sarcastic but she’s gone so far over the line that I wouldn’t trust her to scrub my toilet.
When they form the new axis with Iran the whole world can celebrate.
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