For many years the average Turk on the street was filled with pride and Ataturk was their “George Washington”. They admired the West and made moves to emulate the culture of freedom and capitalism. Unfortunately much of Turkey has drifted toward Islamic fundamentalism during the past couple decades. Obama and Clinton looked the other way as our NATO ally played footsie with Iran and Russia.
Just another thing I blame on the Leftists in the West.
Even before Jimmy Carter started the acute stage of Western capitulation to Jihad, guys like Frank Church, Ted Kennedy and George McGovern, plus most of the socialist/labor governments of Western Europe tried to curry favor with the despotic, Muslim oil states.
You can go back to the Suez Crisis of 1956 and see how we forced Israel to stop beating up poor Egypt—with the Marxist Nassar in charge—in order to avoid pissing off the Muslims.
When Israel conquered the West Bank they should have straight out annexed it and told any Arabs there they have two choices, swear loyalty to Israel, or pack their bags.
By making them stop full on control, the PLO was born.
And don’t forget the blunder of Saddam having WMDs. A slam dunk, Tennant said. OK, he had chemical weapons, but they were trash after Desert Storm. Most of this junk we also found, but where were the nuke labs (yellow cake?), the biological research labs, and all the rest Colin Powell showed us pictures of.
I think Saddam had more chemical weapons and sent them to Syria. But they were absolutely not maintained and never would’ve worked in a real war, probably killing those attempting to use them. We got bamboozled.
Then, of course, without the WMD, Bush changed it to nation building. Yeah, give Islamists the vote and who wins? ISLAMISTS!!!
Every chicken has come home to roost in the Middle East.
We need to just stay out, and keep any of them from coming here. Strict quarantine.
If they cause us trouble, the B-2’s at Whiteman AFB in Missouri can reach out and “touch” them.