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Turkey: our most underappreciated ally
Washington Times ^
| 10/12/2002
| House Editorial
Posted on 10/12/2002 9:27:34 AM PDT by aculeus
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:57:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: spectre
"I think Turkey is one of our strongest allies in modern history." I agree with your statement, and if you go back, into previous discussions on Turkey, you will see that I suggested we take Turkey as the 51st State of the USA, instead of giving her away to the EU. What is your opinion on this?
To: pkpjamestown
Give Turkey two seats in the US Senate, 75 seats in the Congress, one governor, and get their military under the pentagon wing. The Turkish people will be delighted to be US citizens, ten times better than being Euro-citizens!
To: pkpjamestown
I forgot the 12 Kurdish assemblymen.
To: pkpjamestown
My opinion is that there is less than a snowballs chance in Hell that our best friend in the Middle East will become our 51st state.
Unfortunatly, there is even less chance of Turkey being allowed to join the EU..
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:20:10 PM PDT
by
spectre
To: spectre; pkpjamestown
Both of you did a better job explaining the situation than this garbage article from the WT.
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:33:26 PM PDT
by
Destro
To: spectre
We do need to put Turkey 'in our pocket' and beat the EU and the Arab axis to the punch. Turkey has been a good ally for decades, and never gave us the grief our Euroweenie 'allies' have given us.
To: spectre; thescourged1
To: spectre; thescourged1
To: aculeus
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posted on
10/12/2002 8:21:36 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: spectre
Turks fought with us in the Korean War, provided us with TONS of intelligence in the Cold War and provided logistical support in the war on terror. Turkey is our number one ally in that region of the world.
BTW: Since when did Freepers become a bunch of Woodrow Wilsons and insist that all countries must be "democracies."
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posted on
10/12/2002 9:28:48 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
To: Clemenza
Could not agree more.
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posted on
10/12/2002 9:47:26 PM PDT
by
spectre
To: Clemenza
Do you think Iraq, should be a "democracy"?
To: pkpjamestown
Do you think Iraq, should be a "democracy"? Not necessarily. Remember that Chile under Pinochet grew to be the most successful market-based economy in Latin America, as opposed to the various Democratic Socialist (and under Allende, openly Marxist) goevernments that preceded him.
I doubt Iraq will ever produce a Pinochet. What matters to me most is that the government is friendly to the United States, but enjoys a large enough base of supports where it won't fall like a house of cards when the US pulls out.
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posted on
10/13/2002 2:25:36 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
To: Destro
I'd forgotten that. Somtimes life is perverse. I don't care for Moon at all, but the WTimes is a better source of info than the NYT or the WP.
To: Clara Lou
That is actually a cult brain washing trick :)
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posted on
10/13/2002 9:19:31 AM PDT
by
Destro
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To: aculeus
We've been treating them bad ever since we ignored old Ben Franklin's advice, and made the eagle our national bird...
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posted on
10/13/2002 1:32:31 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: Clemenza
Bump
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posted on
10/14/2002 4:23:01 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: Clemenza
The left has been working very successfully to spread the intellectual "democracy uber alles" disease into the conservative movement for a long time.
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posted on
10/14/2002 4:26:00 PM PDT
by
weikel
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