Posted on 09/06/2021 9:49:28 AM PDT by jcon40
The recent U.S. statements about the possibility of cooperating with the Taliban against Daesh have confused everyone Reading Antony Blinken’s tweets on the end of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan and his praise of Turkey, I remembered an idiom I had learned ages ago: “mealy-mouthed.” Mr. Pickering, our peace-corps English instructor in high school, used to translate it as the equivalent of our Turkish expression of “Bir dediği bir dediğine uymuyor.” (Literally: “His one statement doesn’t suit his another
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Afghanistan during a media briefing at the State Department, Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo) Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Afghanistan during a media briefing at the State Department, Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo) statement.”) That is exactly what Blinken is: “a mealy-mouthed self-serving bureaucrat” who speaks from both sides of his mouth.
Blinken needs Turkey’s help in Afghanistan, for instance, to convince the Taliban leaders to accept the U.S. foreign aid, or some other wicked design they might have in the offing. How about sowing seeds of enmity between the Northern Alliance (now known as the Panjshir resistance forces) and the Taliban?
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You don’t mess with the Turks.
My husband told me in Korea the US had high fences around its compound and the Turks had low fences because everyone knew you don’t mess with the Turks.
Boy Howdy, here is a writer that understands Washington and knows everything, including praise or even please & thank you comes with long strings attached.
Great article. Thanks for posting. Our government is chock full of imposters.
Blinken is a disaster. He radiates weakness and confusion.
Erdogan trying hard to be the main man again. Consider the source of this article.
Pass the turkey, please.
Turks are treacherous people. They were allies of the Germans in WW1.
Yeah. Turkey has been poking us in the eye since Erdogan consolidated power.
They obviously are going to feel new pressure from our botched withdrawal.
Turkey has been the home of a sizable Uyghur population fleeing from China.
Who will be on who’s side?
Will coordinate? What does he call gifting the Taliban billions of bucks in military gear? Seems like the Biden administration has been coordinating quite well with them.
I wish a reporter would force psakai to address this fact that the world sees us now as liars and untrustworthy, and bring up tha fact that we may never again be able to repair that perception now than,s to biden!
Turkey also has millions of foot-soldiers in Europe with all of the muslims there, they will be loyal to Erdogan over their host countries.
>>>Blinken is a disaster. He radiates weakness and confusion<<<
Just like his Boss. Big surprise.
>>>Blinken is a disaster. He radiates weakness and confusion<<<
Just like his Boss. Big surprise.
And I believe they weren’t very nice to Armenians during said period.
You mean Bugout Milley, the guy who was surprised that when he pulled out support for the government of Afghanistan it collapsed? That genius of military confusion. He and Blinken and Austin and Rhodes-scholar [e.g. loyal servant of the globalist elite - which is exactly what Cecil Rhodes was looking for when he created the scholarship] Sullivan are quite a team - self-generated confusion all the way around.
Indeed! Who will be on whose side?
Regards,
I once worked for one of the Hovnanian home builders here in NJ. They were big here at one time. They’re Armenian Christians. They had nothing but hatred for Turks.
“Mr.H’’ used to like to throw parties for us now and then and he used to say “The Turks have a toast’’. “To your honor’’ they say.
And then he would say ‘’Because a Turk has none’’.
There are a lot of Catholic Turks as well...just not as many.
Many Turks don’t even know their own history.
An American Turkish man I know recently confided to me some of his ideas about Erdogan - mainly that (a) he was made who he is in Turkey by America, and (b) he would not still be in power in Turkey today if America did not want him to be. Yet his “evidence” was such a cut-and-paste out of context jumble that ignored everything inside Turkey about Erdogan, as if none of that personal history of Erdogan in Turkey meant anything at all. He considers Erdogan an American pawn while he totally disregards all the ways since Erdogan began to rise to power where Erdogan was responsible for NOT cooperating with the U.S.
I did not bother to try to tell my Turkish acquaintance what I thought of his ideas.
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