a_Turk, it's good to see you in a better mood today; we are "babes" in the sense that we're just now waking up to discover that a great deal of the bs we've accepted for so long about foreign policy is indeed just that.
Don't take all the abuse hurled Turkey's way on some of these threads as personal -- nerves are frayed on both sides of the ocean, the world is, in many respects, gone bonkers, and what we thought was a safe distance from the eye of the storm now turns out to be staring us in the face. We've got a lot of re-thinking to do.
Stay safe.