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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Turkish Anti-Americanism American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother. I'm not sure how pervasive this anti-American feeling is. There are some Turks in government who have made public statements condemning the United States, but I suspect that among Turkey's informed citizenry, the United States' military presence in Turkey and its political and economic influence over Israel is seen as a rather good thing. Nothing stabilizes a volatile region like a trillion-dollar superpower with nculear weapons. Turkey's business community and its government are well aware of their proximity to both Saudia Arabia and Iran; neither of these countries has given secular Turkey (or Israel) much of a problem because both countries know they could not win a war in which the United States would participate. Turkey is too critical to America's strategic interests in the region. I suspect that informed Turks understand this and value their historic friendship with America and Israel. Turkey, as with all Muslim countries with moderately developed economies, has major issues involving tensions between secularists and traditionalists. The secularists are generally wealthier, better educated, and have firm ties with both America and cosmopolitan Europe. The traditionalists do not. Note: I blog at Dave Friedman's Soul of Wit. My blog is nominally libertarian in outlook, with the occasional whimsical observation on popular culture and New York City. Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Dave at 7:43 PM |
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1 Comments:
Repeating the Blood Libel again? Anti-American and anti-Semitic. Turkey is supposedly a moderate, civilized Muslim nation, and yet this filth seems to be popular there, too. Maybe a more accurate definition of "moderate Muslim" is merely one who is happy to let somebody else do the killing. It's time for Islam to reform itself and, at minimum, enter the 18th century.
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