TURKEY AIN'T OUR FRIEND-----Duuuuuhhhh the increasingly lame Wall Street Journal slobbers surprise at the fall of Turkey. So does most of the blog community. Here is a piece I wrote in March of 2003 right after Turkey blocked our invasion plans into Northern Iraq from Turkey.
The only blunder of the war could be very serious indeed
The unreadiness of our military for this Turkish "betrayal" is inexcusable. The current leader of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan, is well known as a Muslim firebrand. When he was last leading the country he did the following: signed agreements with terrorist Lybia and Iran, established a religious school system to turn out Islamic radicals, had plans to build mosques with public monies, infiltrated the government with hard line Muslim Fundamentalists, allowed the Iranian ambassador to Turkey to call on Turkish young people to take up arms against the United States; and other less odious practices.
He and his party are no friends of the United States and could well be moving Turkey from a secular state to an Islamic state. Turkey has been flexing its muscles throughout the middle east for years and was once the seat of The Ottoman Empire.
They fear the Kurds who have migrated in great numbers into many cities and are a majority in the Southern area. It can never be forgotten that the Kurds were the instruments of the Turks in the genocidal slaughter of one million Armenians in the early 20's. They don't like each other and if the Kurds ever "ratted the Turks out about the Armenian genocide" Turkey would be liable for billions in reparations.
This may go down as a major blunder in this otherwise well planned war. And it is inexcusable.
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The only surprise right now is the surprise being expressed in both Blogs and MSM that the slide of Turkey into an Islamic state is a surprise. Watch out for an attack on the Kurds in the south of Turkey where Kurds are a majority. Bad blood has existed since the Armenian genocide of the 20s. Turkey is "this close" to becoming an official Muslim state. This has been coming for years, started by women wearing hadj to school.
