[Thud]

It depends on whether Beck or I are correct about the reason for this. If I am, your country will soon be in a world of hurt with no friends, and its national integrity will no longer be a given. I hope Beck is right (pun intended).

[Beck_isright]

I do hope that I'm right too. There is a lot of gamesmanship going on in the Turkish parliment and if the politicians over play their hands, the military will intervene. On the flip side, if we are refusing to put this agreement in writing, it will never pass under the direction of the Turkish generals. They will not get zapped twice in 13 years, that's for sure. And I don't put anything past the zealots in our State Department either. I'm sure the phone and fax lines are still burning up, so by Monday morning, we'll have some clue as to where this is going.