tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post596082281718102922..comments2023-10-05T08:44:09.303-07:00Comments on JG, Caesarea: Thomas Friedman, "Trump and the Sultan": Obama's Best Friend Erdogan?Jeffrey Grossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-58653509869000522562016-07-20T16:49:51.959-07:002016-07-20T16:49:51.959-07:00correction: Gulen's charter schools are in Tur...correction: Gulen's charter schools are in Turkey.<br /><br />Claire Berlinski on the coup & purge, not the nukes:<br /><br />http://www.city-journal.org/html/who-planned-turkeys-coup-14656.html<br /><br />"...Tuesday’s announcement that the licenses of 21,000 private schoolteachers have been suspended brings the total number of those suspended or detained to about 60,000. The so-called “parallel state” seems to be almost as large as the official one—and this isn’t counting all the suspected followers of Gülen in the Turkish civil service, judiciary, and police who had already been purged over the past two and a half years. ..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-25739123419529690392016-07-20T08:26:30.363-07:002016-07-20T08:26:30.363-07:00J.E. Dyer always has better sources than Debka:
h...J.E. Dyer always has better sources than Debka:<br /><br />http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/07/18/coup-turkey-goes-nuclear-bigger-looks/<br /><br />"...The Pentagon isn’t going to be explicit about its plan for the nukes at Incirlik. The latest reporting seems to indicate that there are no plans to move them. It would be surprising if we heard that there were such plans, given that the U.S. is officially silent on the topic of where the nuclear-sharing warheads are kept. Such plans would in any case be both sensitive and disruptive, especially if forced on NATO by instability in the member state.<br /><br />NATO will have to take this under advisement right away as an alliance problem. That’s the only responsible course. If our national leaders are not doing that, they should all be impeached and removed from office immediately.<br /><br />This situation is vulnerable and delicate – in the extreme – and is therefore a really bad situation to have Barack Obama in charge of. Frankly, the right thing to do is exercise U.S. leadership and get the nukes out of Turkey forthwith. The niceties of NATO consultation can (and should) be tended later. But no one in this scenario has reason to expect Obama to do the right thing – not NATO, and not the American people. ..."<br /><br /><br />[meanwhile the media still dissecting Melania Trump's "crimes" & completely ignoring Donald Trump, Junior's speech because it was not plagiarized;<br />but a few in media have taken notice of Erdogan bombing Iraqi Kurdistan.<br /><br />and Obama will appease his mentor Erdogan by shutting down Gulen's charter schools in the USA whilst the U.S. military insures sex change operations - today's priority.]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-34722397946942130682016-07-20T04:16:26.127-07:002016-07-20T04:16:26.127-07:00It is Obama's America that muzzles free spee...It is Obama's America that muzzles free speech. <br /><br />The fundamental transformation of American media into an echo chamber of state-propaganda since 2008 is now terrifying.<br /><br />The prospect of the new democratic party platform having any chance of winning is deadly. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com