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I made it a mission to confront them on every Aturk and company thread. They hated me which made me feel that I was on the right track..
The Turks are Muslim. How can a Muslim be your friend?
What part of "do not take the jews and the Christians for friends'"don't we understand? - tom
Koran: 5.51: O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
"*Remembering those FReepers who told me what great friends the Turks are to America*"
I haven't followed it and don't know what the reality of Turkey was in the past, but it's clear that they have tipped into Islamacism.
One sad thing about it is that we have consistently sacrificed the Kurds---a truly cool people---for our friendship with Turkey. Theoretically, it is not too late to reverse course and support an independent Iraqi Kurdistan---a nation we could defend militarily without casualties because there are no IED's and no car bombs in the Kurdish section of Iraq. I don't believe anybody is going to attack our army openly with tanks, planes, etc.
Realistically, this will never happen because it would imply abandonment of the rest of Iraq.