'Turkey has overrated itself'

Turkish Daily News ^ | Mehmet Ali Birand

[Nogbad]

Ping

[desertcry]

Turkey is no longer a trusted friend of the USA, and will pay a heavy price for it. Who can Turkey turn for support now in their time of need, which is coming very soon. Their economy is a mess. Obviously the germans, the french or the russians are not going to extend them any helping hand.

[river rat]

This has to be a horrible situation for those in Turkey that wish to move toward the West and away from the lunatic radical Islamists and the "old European whores".

Turkey was lured away from their long term friend - by the smiling whores in France and a greedy miscalulation of their "bargining position". Well, the world now knows the French for who they are --- and we can't help but to see Turkey in the same bed.....with the covers pulled up to their noses.

For Turkey to have doubted America's friendship and integrity -- was a massive mistake.

I have no idea of how that bridge can be rebuilt... It's really one of the worse outcomes of the Iraqi scenario.

I'm sure you'll remember, when I suggested that Turkey had really F'ed up ---- immediatly after the 4th I.D. was denied permission to offload onto Turkish soil... This is one of the times, I am sorry I was right..

Semper Fi

[Mortimer Snavely]

"If Turkey wants to go back to the good old days with the USA, Turkey must stop fluctuating...... Have faith in us and walk with us. You would benefit from that. "

What the author is saying is that the Turkish government must stop acting like a mesmerizing, enchanting, willful, capricious, coquettish, seductive, and altogether ditzy young woman.

[Destro]

What the USA did angered nations for different reasons. Beyond local reasons for not backing us (Turkey and the Kurds is one) is the natural age old tendency of nations to form against what they precieve as an emerging hegemon.

Fear of an emerging German hegemony in Europe brought natural enemies Britain, France, and Russia (just a generation past in the Crimean War France, Britain, Germany and Austria-Hungry were at war with Russia).

Fear of Nazi Germany kept the WW1 Western alliance intact and fear of the USSR turned the "Western" allies into NATO. With the Cold War over that fear of nation of an emerging hegemon is directed at America no matter how irrational it may seem to us Americans that these nations should have that fear.

[George W. Bush]

Turkeys can fly. Not far and not agilely. But they fly.

[MalcolmS]

Turkeys can fly. Not far and not agilely. But they fly.

I know that wild turkeys can fly enough to roost high in trees at night. However, Carlson and Co. would not have dropped wild turkeys. They were no doubt factory-farmed overbred turkeys, whose feathers may be clipped to keep them on the farm and under control.

I understand that they are bred and selected for more breast meat than nature intended. I have read that as a result, they must be artifically inseminated as they cannot manage the task the natural way, as they overbalance and fall over.

Of course, knowing the competence of the WKRP crew, Herb Tarlek probably got a deal on frozen turkeys.

Disclaimer: I am not a turkey farmer, nor do I play one on TV.