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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

ANTI-ISRAELISM IS ALSO ANTI-AMERICANISM

Mark Steyn makes a point about how many anti-semites are also anti-American, and about Turkey's return to evil of Islam:
Foreign policy “realists,” back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of “stability”: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should learn to live with Mubarak and the mullahs and the House of Saud, etc. You can see the appeal of “stability” to your big-time geopolitical analyst: You don’t have to update your Rolodex too often, never mind rethink your assumptions. “Stability” is a fancy term to upgrade inertia and complacency into strategy. No wonder the fetishization of stability is one of the most stable features of foreign-policy analysis.

Unfortunately, back in what passes for the real world, there is no stability. History is always on the march, and, if it’s not moving in your direction, it’s generally moving in the other fellow’s. Take this “humanitarian” “aid” flotilla. Much of what went on — the dissembling of the Palestinian propagandists, the hysteria of the U.N. and the Euro-ninnies — was just business as usual. But what was most striking was the behavior of the Turks. In the wake of the Israeli raid, Ankara promised to provide Turkish naval protection for the next “aid” convoy to Gaza. This would be, in effect, an act of war — more to the point, an act of war by a NATO member against the State of Israel.

Ten years ago, Turkey’s behavior would have been unthinkable. Ankara was Israel’s best friend in a region where every other neighbor wishes, to one degree or another, the Jewish state’s destruction. Even when Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP was elected to power eight years ago, the experts assured us there was no need to worry. I remember sitting in a plush bar late one night with a former Turkish foreign minister, who told me, in between passing round the cigars and chugging back the Scotch, that, yes, the new crowd weren’t quite so convivial in the wee small hours but, other than that, they knew where their interests lay. Like many Turkish movers and shakers of his generation, my drinking companion loved the Israelis. “They’re tough hombres,” he said admiringly. “You have to be in this part of the world.” If you had suggested to him that in six years’ time the Turkish prime minister would be telling the Israeli president to his face that “I know well how you kill children on beaches,” he would have dismissed it as a fantasy concoction for some alternative universe.

Yet it happened. Erdogan said those words to Shimon Peres at Davos last year and then flounced off stage. Day by day what was formerly the Zionist entity’s staunchest pal talks more and more like just another cookie-cutter death-to-the-Great-Satan stan-of-the-month.
I think we should consider that, if the Religion of Peace still rules Turkey, that's why their return to Islamofascism is likely. In fact, that's sadly what'll likely be the case with Iraq if Islam continues to reign supreme there. I may have said it before, I'll say it again: you don't uproot the leading problem, you can't expect all your hard work to pay off. Sooner or later, it collapses, because Islam and socialism, as is the problem with Russia's form of thinking, were not genuinely opposed.

2 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Turkey's return to evil of Islam

Ostensibly, Turkey has become Europeanized over the years.

Note that I said, "Ostensibly." Under the gilded surface has been the fact the Mein Kampf has been a bestseller there for decades.

Reliapundit said...

nearly half of the west doesn't think we should vigorously defend our civilization.

the postmodernists and leftists and weenie appeasers.

and most don't want us to use our most powerful weapons while the enemy doesn't have them.

it makes it very hard to win when you're fighting an enemy that will do anything use any weapons inflict any horror and suffer any loss.

we should be using our most powerful weapons and completely ostracize the jihadist nations: iran, syria, turkey, saudi arabia and pakistan.

instead we try sanctions and drones and marines.

that guarantees a longer war of attrition which they could win.

they think the entire world in 2010 is like afghanistan on the 1980's.

they think they can defeat the west the way the mujahadeen- with our help - defeated the ussr.

this time they also have our help - via obama.

so they might succeed.

we can stop them this november.

i think bibi is praying for a gop sweep of the congress.

and praying this can limit the damage obama might do and has done.

we shall see...