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The US Turkey alliance was toast the day Turkey refused to allow passage for US troops into Iraq. Allies allow their allies to use their territory to move troops. Turkey and the US are allies by virtue of the NATO treaty, yet Turkey rebuffed the first invocation of Article V. A treaty that no one follows is simply worthless paper; it's certainly not worthy of an alliance.

We pretty much learned that day that when the chips are down, Turkey is no more reliable than France.

Turkey has to face its genocidal history squarely before it can claim the moral high ground. WWI was not that long ago, historically speaking. Likewise Sri Lanka has to face up to its own genocidal campaign against the Tamils to do likewise.

I am a Turkophile, but I am not under the illusion that to be Turk is to be perfect. Turkey cannot legitimately ask our participation in the attempt to eliminate a minority culture. Stateless peoples do have the right to life as well.

>> yet Turkey rebuffed the first invocation of Article V.

Not so. Quite the opposite. Check your facts.

>> The US Turkey alliance was toast the day Turkey refused to allow passage for US troops into Iraq.

Go back a little. Maybe it was toast when the PKK was campaigning and fundraising unfettered in the USA while they were blowin up schools and department stores in Turkey. Maybe it was toast when your congress blocked arms sales to us while we were at the height of our terror war.

This ruling is pro terror. Stop defending it.