Posted on 03/04/2010 2:15:10 PM PST by Gabrial
A congressional panel approved a resolution Thursday declaring the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians genocide over protests by Turkey, a NATO ally that is crucial to U.S. interests in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Minutes after the vote, Turkey said it was recalling its ambassador from Washington.
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Beats the heck out of me. I don’t think we have anyone steering the bus.
ok pal.
Turkey is fast heading in to the moosie camp.
Good ridance.
As for you Pal,
Get a clue.
You may want to update your post. It was reported last week that the government arrested the heads of the military.
“Why would we want to lash out against a relative (weak) ally in a region where there are avowed enemies?<”
Does anyone read anymore?
The Turkish Army is one of the largest standing armies in the world and the second largest army of NATO. The Turkish Army has around 750,000 active personel
The Turkish Air Force is one of the oldest air forces in the world and operates one of the largest combat aircraft fleets of NATO. The Turkish Air Force has around 65,000 active personel.
The Turkish Navy has historically been one of the largest sea powers of the Mediterranean. The Turkish Navy has around 56,000 active personel.
Link please.
I have to ask why the house is suddenly voting on this now of all times. I’ve read elsewhere that the current government of Turkey is as hardline muslim as it’s been in a long while and there is a danger of it causing a constitutional crisis and even turning Turkey from a secular democratic state aligned with the US into an Islamic republic. I don’t trust our current commander in chief as far as I can spit, but I don’t see how grandstanding by the Democrat-controlled congress over the events of almost a century ago can possibly help matters.
I'm not your pal. And if you are moron enough to believe that pissing off Turkey as a good idea.......well, you're dumber than you come across as. Pal.
Would you like Turkey to be allied with Russia? I bet the Russians would really like that. Think!
“Link please.”
The list, ping
There is no point in passing this garbarge except to placate Armenian and Greek Americans who hate the Turks. You can bet that Obama and the State Department is in overdrive trying to kill this thing, just like Bush did when they tried this same nonsense.
The One thought that sucking up to everyone in the world would improve our standing. It hasn’t helped us a bit. I would expect Obama to come down on the side that props up the myth that his entire shitty presidency rests on but weakens the US overall. Alienating Turkey is a stupid idea that will only weaken us and Europe.
You ask a valid question. But the fact of the matter is that they do. And the resolution does absolutely nothing to help the Armenian vicitms and it does plenty to undermine the war effort.
Thanks Gab, I haven’t seen this.
I’d rather they admit who they are alinged with rather than to continue to play us for suckers.
In the last week they’ve thrown secularists under the bus.
Turkey is fast becoming a full fledged moosie country.
Look for American bases ther to be thrown out VERY soon.
Over the objections of the Obama administration, the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee (Thursday) passed the nonbinding resolution by a vote of 23 to 22.
Almost immediately, Turkey's government ordered its ambassador to the United States to return to Ankara for consultations.
U.S. President Barack Obama had made a campaign promise in 2008 to declare the killings genocide. But the U.S. has been working with Turkey and Armenia in their reconciliation efforts, which White House officials say have made progress. The administration urged the committee not to offend Turkey by passing the resolution.
Republican Congressman Dan Burton opposed the resolution, pointing out that a U.S. Air Force base in Turkey is vital to American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Knowing that we may have to take some kind of military action down the road against maybe even Iran, we need to have as many friends in that part of the world as possible," said Dan Burton.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not said whether the genocide resolution will go to the full House of Representatives for a vote.
The Foreign Affairs Committee approved a similar genocide resolution in 2007. After intensive pressure from then-President George W. Bush, the measure was not brought to the House floor.
Yeah, but how is passing another worthless resolution going to help? Congress is not the world’s chief historian. They can’t even do math right.
This is why we have a chief executive that handles foreign policy... and the country is much better off having a Republican chief executive.
Turkey is far more important to our national interests than Armenia, a nation of just 3 million. Turkish Diplomats have been attacked and killed by Armenian terrorists in the 1980s including inside the US.
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