Posted on 07/26/2010 1:27:01 PM PDT by thisisthetime
The World Tribune’s Gregory Copley has broken the news that “U.S. powerlessness and EU confusion” have opened a “window of opportunity” for Turkey to seriously consider acquiring nuclear weapons. Just last month, Turkey defied its traditional allies, including the United States and Israel, by voting against a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran, in punishments for Tehran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. Further, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has displayed growing Islamist sympathies and exercises an undemocratic stranglehold on power, raising legitimate questions about Turkey’s commitment to secular democracy as well as to NATO.
The news that Turkey is considering “going nuclear” is a game changer, and it should shake the Obama Administration to its core. A nuclear-armed Turkey would ride a coach-and-horses through Obama’s chief foreign policy goal of “getting to zero,” and it would expose his profoundly foolish strategy of neglecting traditional allies in order to engage America’s enemies. It would legitimize Iran’s illicit pursuit of nuclear weapons, and it would so profoundly change the balance of power in the Middle East that the ramifications could not be predicted with certainty for decades.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently stated that Turkey’s strategic drift away from the West is due in part to the European Union’s reluctance to grant Turkey full EU membership. Certainly the EU is not negotiating with Ankara in good faith, but Brussels cannot be entirely to blame. Ankara has distanced itself from Europe and the U.S. and has instead prioritized its relations with Russia and the Muslim world, especially Iran.
Turkey’s formerly close relations with Israel have deteriorated steadily since the AKP’s rise to power...
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
Everybody’s getting in on it!
Wow. Way to go obama and hillary!! You’ve somehow managed to advance the nuclear clock instead of reverse it. So much for all your big talk!!
Will that get Turkey membership in the EU?
Know this: The biblical prophesy that ALL the nations of the world will turn against the nation of Israel have long been thought by some to be impossible as a literal interpretation. But, if we consider now the rise of Islam, world wide, the decline in populations of western culture, the new world order may be in fact Islamic. THAT would present the exact situation for every nation to turn against Israel. Who would have thought that in October of 2001, a Muslim raised man named Barack Hussein would be president of the US?
“U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently stated that Turkey’s strategic drift away from the West is due in part to the European Union’s reluctance to grant Turkey full EU membership.”
Does anyone else think Gates is terrible in his current role? If he actually believes that the EU not granting Turkey membership is responsible for this shift the guy is woefully inept in his position. Perhaps they are using it as an excuse but given some of the basic and easily met stipulations the EU put forth as needing to see from Turkey it is pretty clear they have no intention of playing by the West’s rules regardless.
Gates would rather blame our former allies in the West than admit that Turkey is being steered further towards Islam. But what else is new with this administration.
WEll I gots to get started on my bomb shelter and M.R.E.’s
Thanks obammy.
>> It is just a matter of time before one of these go off.
Ever since we figured out how to make them, it was ALWAYS just a matter of time until they are routinely used.
Such has it been with every single weapon of war.
Nuclear nonproliferation is an admirable goal, but it is simply not possible.
What is possible is to maintain our own strength high enough for our own safety. But Bambi seems not inclined to do it.
you might want to ask this couple that question and don’t miss post number 30 by hattend:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2556803/posts
>> Does anyone else think Gates is terrible in his current role?
Essentially all of our government is comprised of “men” (in the species sense) who are egotistical, self serving, incompetent, short-sighted fools.
Yes, Gates is one of these.
gee fills you with confidence don’t it? /sarc
Well, Pakistan went nuclear under the other Clinton...
Towards the end of Clinton's second term, Pakistan began building *monuments* to its nuclear arsenal. Fiberglass replicas of missiles and likenesses of the mountain where underground testing was conducted, displayed at road intersections and in public parks. That's more than just a bit creepy, like the post-apocalyptic humans in Beneath the Planet of the Apes who worship the bomb.
That sort of mindset reaches beyond mere "deterrence", IMO.
Turkey is finally giving up the forlorn hope of joining Europe and is rejoining the Moslem World. European ambitions neutralized the Army which is/was the Constitutional Protector of the Republic because Europe would have kicked Turkey to the curb had the generals acted as they have done in the past when the government in Ankara had veered too far left or too far Islamist. The Generals did not want to jeopardize Turkey’s chance to join the West formally. So they waited too long and the government was able to thin out the Kemalist generals and judges on the courts. So Europe did not kick Turkey to the curb. Europe just never let Turkey come off the curb in the first place.
yes, every weapon throughout history always had "just a matter of time before they are used."
The battleship down to the long bow. but none can destroy as effectively as a hydrogen bomb.
A few people from the religion of peace will acquire some weapons and implement their peace plan.
We will have no choice but to find the countries that could have given them the weapons and occupy them.
We are looking down the barrel of world war against all third world countries.
>> We are looking down the barrel of world war against all third world countries.
Yes. I agree.
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