[jungleboy]

The Phobia you talk about is the results of massive MEDIA-DRIVEN propaganda being fed to the populations of every country in the world, by enemies of the US! The ignorant citizens of Turkey were fed the same lies and nothing more. Turkey's parliment's hands were tied.

[WoofDog123]

"The Phobia you talk about is the results of massive MEDIA-DRIVEN propaganda being fed to the populations of every country in the world, by enemies of the US! "

You mean CNN?

[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.