Posted on 04/05/2009 10:36:24 PM PDT by mojitojoe
PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged the European Union on Sunday to accept Turkey as a full member of the 27-nation bloc, in remarks rejected outright by France and met coolly by Germany.
The disagreement was a rare outward sign of divergence at an EU-U.S. summit stage-managed to relaunch trans-atlantic ties that were strained under the Bush administration and which both sides are now eager to mend.
"The United States and Europe must approach Muslims as our friends, neighbours and partners in fighting injustice, intolerance and violence, forging a relationship based on mutual respect and mutual interests," Obama told the summit.
"Moving forward towards Turkish membership in the EU would be an important signal of your (EU) commitment to this agenda and ensure that we continue to anchor Turkey firmly in Europe," he told EU leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Colin Powell lost Turkey for Bush just weeks from the start of the operation, forcing the United States to have to divert the troops south, and losing the pincer tactic of a two-front attack that would squeeze Iraqi forces into the middle.
Instead, Iraq's military were able to sneak north and out of the country.
And now Obama wants to reward the Turks.
-PJ
That arrogant America that lectures rather than listens seems to be back already!
“What makes you think we’ll have another election?”
You’re right it’s looking pretty bad. On the face of it some may call your above quote a little extreme, but did we ever think we would see the press this biased? Does anyone here who was fully concious during the Kennedy years remember it being this media-biased for the president? Just curious.
everything Obama has done so far is destructive to the USA
wonder how all the armenian refugees feel about this one?
He always has time to advance the cause of ISLAM.
He'll probably do a commercial for it soon:
"I'm not the Antichrist, but I play one on tv..."
He’s got so so much going on because there won’t be enough time for US to scrutinize any of it.
OMG-I can’t believe this.
Wait look over there!
Oh something just happened behind me.
ANd yes, he does always seem to have time to help them with their precious jihad(barf).
And they did so with the explicit promise by the French to secure their full membership in the EU.
So, I agree with the poster who said, Now we should stick their (frog-like) noses into the turd they (the French) laid.
I agree. It’s none of our business. That Obama dude is one arrogant American. If Turkey is so great, maybe Obamba should invite them into the USA. Or maybe I shouldn’t make that suggestion. But then, we’re fooked one way or another.
And they did so with the explicit promise by the French to secure their full membership in the EU.
So, I agree with the poster who said, Now we should stick their (frog-like) noses into the turd they (the French) laid.
O loves Turkey because they backed down at the last minute and refused to allow us to enter Iraq from their country.
That put them on O’s hit parade.
Why? So that Islamist radicals can pour into Turkey from Iran, Iraq and Syria and then, since a citizen of one E.U. country is a citizen of all E.U. countries, after a trip to the local I.D. forger, the Islamist radicals can pour into Western Europe.
This idea is as utterly asinine as France or Germany publicly supporting making Afghanistan the 51st U.S. state so that anybody with an Afghan driver's license can fly directly to the U.S. without a visa or a passport.
There is a silver lining to all of this.
Remember the saying, " A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged by reality"?
Well, the E.U. has just been mugged by the reality of how abysmally naive, inexperienced and completely out of his league Obama is in regards to foreign policy.
The U.S. media won't do it's job in holding Obama accountable for anything. The European media, out of a sense of pure self-preservation, may start doing just that..
We can't do that .....
..... until we make the Democrat Left loose control of Congress in 2010.
Thanks.....
0bama means we are third world oriented and Muslim oriented which *coincidentally* enough reflects the 0bama’s own life as he spent formative years in Indonesia a Muslim nation
He got shaped and brainwashed at a young age
He went to Koran recitation classes
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Remember Lepanto!
This idea is as utterly asinine as France or Germany publicly supporting making Afghanistan the 51st U.S. state so that anybody with an Afghan driver’s license can fly directly to the U.S. without a visa or a passport...
You are correct ..... it is really none of his business. His hubris will kill him
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