He’s on the side of Sharia right now because it helps enhance his personal power. He’d turn as westward as the Islamized military would allow him, if he saw some political advantage to it. This is as old as politics itself. Why do you think the Dems want socialized medicine? Compassion? Why don’t the Republicans? Because they’re so staunchly conservative? It is all about power. Dems get their power from the urbanized coastal areas, so they offer handouts. Republicans get theirs from rural and suburban areas, so they offer more freedom. Same thing with Erdogan. He threw out Ataturk’s legacy and Islamicized—not because he gives a damn about the cause of Islam—but because he’s dedicated heart and soul to his own ambitions. It’s too late for him to do a 180, but a covert leg up here and there might be doable, if it’s in his interests to play a double game. It can be made so.
BACKSTORY Thanks to assurances by Israeli-centric Cong Robert Wexler (ousted from office under a cloud), TURKEY received $21 billion economic/military US foreign aid. The US Dept of state reported Dec 2011 that as part of the cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States has loaned and granted Turkey more than $7 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance over several years.
As one sage opined: "Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan reminds us, in his region, democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop."
America needs to disentangle itself from the neocon stranglehold----we dont need a foreign policy rooted in yesterday’s dollar-draining dreams of global democracy.....and other cockamamie policies fomented by the pukerneos.
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REFERENCE Your tax dollars at work, thanks to the pukeneos.
(1) The US stupidly gave Pakistan billions in the wake of 911----the country that was openly harboring Bin Laden. Despite all its advanced technology, Israel "did not know" Bin Laden was in their neighborhood? And isn't it nice that a tiny country like Israel--- surrounded by enemies---has zillions of dollars to conduct these costly activities--- as US citizens struggle to survive?
(2) TURKEY received $21 billion economic/military US foreign aid....thanks to neocons. The US Dept of state ----duped by neocons----reported Dec 2011 that as part of their stupid cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States stupidly loaned and granted Turkey more than $7 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance over several years......So much for "peace"....Turkey is now getting ready to acquire nuclear weapons. Despite all its advanced technology, Israel did not know this?
(3) Neocons duped the US into pouring trillions into Afghanistan.....the most corrupt area on the globe. The Bank of Kabul is engaged in massive fraud---the bank where the US deposits billions of US tax dollars to run the war----if you are "connected" you can withdraw billions with no responsibility to pay it back. Afghan Pres Karzhai was seen loading billions of US dollars to transport out of the country .
SUMMATION US citizens are being extorted at the pump as the US leaves Iraq with no promise of oil (having spent trillions of US dollars there, leaving rivers of young US blood). Yet, according to the WSJ, conniving neocons are starting their own oil company in Iraq. The cost is immense----facilitated by n/c Richard Perle's war profiteering. Your tax dollars at work.
NOTE There is nothing in the US Constitution that says US citizens should go broke while foreign loyalists and their countries get rich on our tax dollars.