The big difference is we are trying to be bribed and manipulated in this case. That’s what I object to.
We are being neither bribed nor manipulated. We are knowingly rubbing salt into 100 year old wounds that serves no purpose except to further alienate a long time ally, which is having its own domestic problems with Islamic fundamentalists. This kind of action just helps anti-American forces within Turkey. Obama was stupid in how he approached this matter and the Turkish PM let him know about it.