Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

china confidential

 

Who Lost Turkey?


As Turkey turns away from the West, even, paradoxically, as Ankara seeks EU membership (with Obama's blessing), many Americans want to know: Who lost Turkey?

The answer is: Bush and Obama.

Acting in the name of democracy promotion, the Bush administration foolishly blocked Turkey's staunchly secular military from ousting the country's crypto-Islamist government. Obama went further. He personally endorsed the Islamizing trend and encouraged Turkey's embrace of nuclear-arming, islamist Iran, at the cost of scrapping Turkey's traditional, strategic alliance with Israel.