Imitating Christ: Being a Stranger and Sojourner
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Turkey
Whatever it was before the farce that has been described as an attempted coup, today it is clearly a dictatorship in all but name. The United States needs to start rethinking our relationship with that country. I am assuming EU membership no longer rates serious discussion. But Turkey is still part of NATO. Is this a country that Americans should be prepared to die for?
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Given the US's historical and present bedfellows (Saudis, Suharto, Saddam, Samoza, Stalin... and those are just the S's), I think you might do well to think of another reason besides "dictatorship" for wanting to give Erdogan the left foot of fellowship-- not that there aren't plenty of other perfectly valid excuses.
Well there is also the fact that he currently has our base at Incirlik under a state of de-facto siege. You list of unsavory allies just warms my isolationist heart.
Bless your isolationist heart. It's much harder to have your bases under siege when you don't have bases in other people's countries.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/ecuador-base-idUKADD25267520071022
Damn straight!
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