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Walker's World: The eastern question
UPI ^ | 3/27/2002 | Martin Walker - Chief International Correspondent

Posted on 03/28/2002 12:04:02 PM PST by a_Turk

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To: Mortimer Snavely
Thanks Mort, very interesting. Largely ignored is right.
21 posted on 03/28/2002 4:08:56 PM PST by a_Turk
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To: a_Turk
Yet again an informative discussion.
Thanks for the ping.
22 posted on 03/28/2002 4:52:21 PM PST by sistergoldenhair
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To: a_Turk
"Look at the map."

As I understand it, one could travel from Greece to Siberia speaking Turkish the whole way.

23 posted on 03/28/2002 4:54:10 PM PST by Mortimer Snavely
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To: a_Turk
What you say about Iran and Turkey makes sense. Post-mullah sounds good!

As for Europe being a dwarf and a midget, Europe is determined on that fate economically regardless of what the U.S. wants. A socialist nation is on the way to becoming a totalitarian nation, so it's good that European socialist countries are military midgets.

24 posted on 03/28/2002 5:03:58 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: a_Turk
History of Iran
25 posted on 03/28/2002 5:24:12 PM PST by Turk2
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To: Mortimer Snavely
Actually you could almost start from Britain and do that.
26 posted on 03/28/2002 5:24:53 PM PST by Turk2
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27 posted on 03/28/2002 5:26:16 PM PST by AnnaZ
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To: Turk2
Cool I can't imagine how much worse that region would be without you guys.
28 posted on 03/28/2002 6:12:52 PM PST by weikel
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To: a_Turk
I am glad that some Turks are seeing what the problem is with the EU. Hopefully they'll knock some sense into the rest of them. I just hope Bush backs off the EU.
29 posted on 03/28/2002 6:26:45 PM PST by Aric2000
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To: weikel
Thanks :-)
30 posted on 03/28/2002 6:38:40 PM PST by Turk2
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To: Turk2
The Uzbeks( the pro American guys in Afghanstan) are close related to the Turks right?
31 posted on 03/28/2002 6:42:37 PM PST by weikel
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To: weikel
close=closely
32 posted on 03/28/2002 6:42:55 PM PST by weikel
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To: a_Turk
Turkey is probably better off without the EU (also known as the Revised Roman Empire by some folks).
33 posted on 03/28/2002 6:49:29 PM PST by Captain Shady
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To: weikel
Yes. Turkey has been supporting them for years. They had set up a secular government in Mazar-i Sharif before General Dostum was betrayed by one of his commanders an forced to flee a few years ago. Turkey has opened a cosulate and a couple of secular schools in the city before Taliban overrun Dostum with the help of the ISI (Pakistani Intelligence). Unfortunately, back then, the Taliban were not seen as a threat by the US. We saw this mess coming years before 9/11.
34 posted on 03/28/2002 6:50:14 PM PST by Turk2
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To: Turk2
Well the people behind the Taliban are in Saudi Arabia( the ISI went along because they thought it hurt India but I blame the Sauds...).
35 posted on 03/28/2002 6:54:43 PM PST by weikel
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To: Captain Shady
More like the 4th Reich the Roman Empire had some good points.
36 posted on 03/28/2002 6:57:21 PM PST by weikel
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To: weikel
More like the 4th Reich the Roman Empire had some good points.

I have to say you're right. Wish I had thought of that.

37 posted on 03/28/2002 7:12:40 PM PST by Captain Shady
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To: Captain Shady
Of course the 1st two reichs had some good points too.
38 posted on 03/28/2002 7:14:39 PM PST by weikel
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To: a_Turk
Perhaps if the Bush Administration made a point to underscore their use of former military in various appointments, they could ease the EU's fears that a "people's will" democracy and the occasional extra-constitutional fiat exercised by military-minded leadership are not incompatible in the least.
39 posted on 03/28/2002 7:17:03 PM PST by Askel5
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To: Turk2
Thanks for the ping. Interesting post as usual.
40 posted on 03/28/2002 7:40:36 PM PST by patriciaruth
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