Posted on 08/21/2018 10:00:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Turkey is no ally.
They pretend to be one to get advantage on the infidels.
For this right now - YES!
“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!”
Continuing to hold Pastor Brunson is obviously much more important to Turkey and Erdogan than any alliance with the US.
Start helping the Yazidi Kurds to form their own separate nation carved from Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. I know, the US should not be into nation-building, but that is a prohibition that should be applied much more so for Sharia-compliant Muslim regions.
We have an alliance with Turkey?
We sure give up a lot to 1) keep the fiction of NATO alive, and 2) pretend we have Russia bounded on all sides.
Meanwhile, Turkey cuts its own deals with Iran, Syria and Russia. Attacks the Kurds, does business with ISIS, and tries to undermine the Saudis. In other words, business as usual in the mideast - but please don’t call it an “alliance.”
Turkey was a strategic partner important enough to force a NATO membership despite that country's complete lack of proximity to the North Atlantic. That was when the Soviet Union wanted access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean - Erdogan is now dealing with the Russians with regard to the natural gas pipeline that promises to make Turkey rich and naval access is no longer that much of an issue. It's a different world from the Cold War one and the Turks are acting accordingly. So should we.
What was he doing there? Shouldn’t have been there. I don’t want moslems....or any other religion... knocking on my door proselytizing.
RE: I don’t want moslems....or any other religion... knocking on my door proselytizing.
Yes, but are you going to want the government to arrest them and put them in jail for 2 years for doing so?
Just tell them to go away. Dont have to lock them up.
RE: What was he doing there? Shouldn’t have been there.
Obeying the gospel to “Make disciples of all nations” as Jesus Christ tells him to do. He is fluent in Turkish and has established several churches since he went there in the 1990’s.
He has been in Turkey for 23 YEARS, LONG before Erdogan came into power and had the freedom to evangelize before this dictator appeared.
What alliance???
“Is Andrew Brunson’s Release More Important Than Alliance With Turkey?”
Sometimes Christians really piss me off. This question is an example of why because the real problem here is that Turkey is holding an American hostage as a bargaining chip so they can try to force us to give them an opponent of their dictator. Then they’ll murder the opponent and maybe they might release Pastor Brunson.
So Turkey made the decision that holding an American hostage is more important than their alliance with the USA.
There fixed the title of the article for you.
What a steaming pantload. As a Christian, this moron thinks you should be willing to sacrifice another Christian for the sake of good relations with Turkey, because they’re a NATO member?
He has it ass backwards. If that relationship is so important, Turkey needs to worry about pleasing US.
Please show me exactly WHAT Turkey has done for US interests. What a twisted viewpoint.
Turkey is not an ally. Quite the contrary
Let’s ask the Armenians.
The ones that are still alive.
During the recent Iraq War, Turkey did not allow American Forces the use of its air & sea ports and did not allow passage of American troops through, to Iraq.
Turkey is a bad actor. That they are holding Pastor Brunson is just a symptom of the larger whole. And it shows that they have no intention of being allies. Shouldn’t be in NATO. Shouldn’t have an air field there. Should not be friends.
A country that holds your citizens is no ally.
Turkey Rejects U.S. Troop Deployment
Parliament votes against granting access to combat forces. The strategy of advancing on Baghdad from the north suffers a major blow.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/02/world/fg-iraq2
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