Erdogan's imminent reelection will only further a serious problem for the sane world

A Fox News contributor accurately notes the likelihood Recep Erdogan, Turkey's dictator, will continue in the role for at least another decade:

Some voters have the hope of an opposition victory as the result of Erdogan’s lackluster campaign and a spiraling currency crisis. It’s more realistic, however, to start thinking about the problem that his victory is bound to cause for the rest of the world, and especially for the U.S.

Pollsters recalculating the probability of a victorious or defeated Erdogan forget one important feature of Turkey’s so-called democracy: it isn’t one. Erdogan has already stacked the cards for his own success in this election.

After the fixed outcome arrives, Erdogan will lead a Turkey that is more militarily interventionist throughout the broader Middle East and more willing to cooperate with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the cost of the U.S. interests, and those of NATO and the European Union.

It'll come at Israel's expense too, as I'm sure many realize. Already, in fact, as this article tells, it looks like Erdogan's already ensured his fixed victory too:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a commanding lead in his bid Sunday for a presidency with broadly expanded powers, with partial results reported by the country’s state-run news agency showing him with more than 50 percent of the vote — enough to avoid a runoff.

The high-stakes presidential contest and a parliamentary election also held Sunday were set to either consolidate Erdogan’s grip on power or curtail his vast political ambitions. The vote will complete Turkey’s transition from a parliamentary to a new executive presidential system, a move approved in a referendum last year.

Presidential, you say? More like dictatorial. The results are no shock at all, and only inform us Erdogan's going to be a despot for much longer time. For which reason, it's high time sanctions were imposed upon Turkey, until his regime can be stopped.

ONCE AGAIN, DURING OBSERVANCE OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, OBAMA WON'T MENTION THE WORD ITSELF

It looks like Obama has once again failed to call the Armenian tragedy of WW1 what it is:

For the eighth and final time, President Obama this year will break his unambiguous 2008 campaign promise to declare that the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 and 1916 amounted to “genocide,” a leading Armenian-American activist told Yahoo News on Thursday.

According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, at least 664,000 and perhaps as many as 1.2 million Armenians “died in massacres, in individual killings, or as a consequence of systematic ill-treatment, exposure, starvation and disease.”

But officially designating the Ottoman Turks’ actions as “genocide” would have deeply angered Turkey, a NATO ally and a pivotal player in the coalition Obama has assembled to wage war on the Islamic State in neighboring Syria. Turkish governments have sharply disputed the figures of Armenian dead and categorically rejected the “genocide” label.

Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, told Yahoo News shortly after a briefing from Obama aides at the White House that the president would once again stop short of using the term “genocide” in his annual statement about the tragedy.

One of Hot Air's writers also notes:

This seems to be part of a pattern of late. Earlier this week I looked at the decisions being made in the White House over Saudi Arabia and their potential ties to terrorism. The President has found strange bedfellows when it comes to Saudi Arabia and they are clearly walking on eggshells in the interest of going along to get along. It seems awfully convenient to whitewash some of the sins of the Saudi royal family in the interest of maintaining a good working relationship with an ally in the war on terror. (Not to mention one which sits on an ocean of oil.)

So Obama's kowtowing looks like it's going to remain till the bitter end of his tenure. Just another example of how he's basically failed in many ways.

OBAMA PUTS NETANYAHU IN HIS LIST OF DISAPPOINTMENTS

In an interview with the Atlantic's propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama predictably couldn't leave Netanyahu out of his list of disappointments in the middle east:

But over the next three years, as the Arab Spring gave up its early promise, and brutality and dysfunction overwhelmed the Middle East, the president grew disillusioned. Some of his deepest disappointments concern Middle Eastern leaders themselves. Benjamin Netanyahu is in his own category: Obama has long believed that Netanyahu could bring about a two-state solution that would protect Israel’s status as a Jewish-majority democracy, but is too fearful and politically paralyzed to do so. Obama has also not had much patience for Netanyahu and other Middle Eastern leaders who question his understanding of the region. In one of Netanyahu’s meetings with the president, the Israeli prime minister launched into something of a lecture about the dangers of the brutal region in which he lives, and Obama felt that Netanyahu was behaving in a condescending fashion, and was also avoiding the subject at hand: peace negotiations. Finally, the president interrupted the prime minister: “Bibi, you have to understand something,” he said. “I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.” Other leaders also frustrate him immensely. Early on, Obama saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, as the sort of moderate Muslim leader who would bridge the divide between East and West—but Obama now considers him a failure and an authoritarian, one who refuses to use his enormous army to bring stability to Syria. And on the sidelines of a nato summit in Wales in 2014, Obama pulled aside King Abdullah II of Jordan. Obama said he had heard that Abdullah had complained to friends in the U.S. Congress about his leadership, and told the king that if he had complaints, he should raise them directly. The king denied that he had spoken ill of him.

I'm sorry, but he doesn't understand anything, and it's incredibly ill-advised of him to act like he does. Without understanding of Islam, he will not realize why "peace" is impossible, nor why "two-state solutions" only condone segregation, something that goes against the values America usually upholds.

And his perception of Erdogan as a "moderate" is also laughable, because Erdogan's bunch was proving otherwise long before Obama was elected, and still are. Failing to make distinctions between Netanyahu and Erdogan, for example, is ludicrous and degrading.

CAR BOMBING IN ANKARA, TURKEY

Jihadism has struck in the middle of a regime that's been backing it:

Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings.

The Turkish military condemned what it described as a terrorist attack on the buses as they waited at traffic lights in the administrative heart of the NATO member's capital.

The attack, the latest in a series of bombings in the past year mostly blamed on Islamic State, comes as Turkey gets dragged ever deeper into the war in neighboring Syria and tries to contain some of the fiercest violence in decades in its predominantly Kurdish southeast.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's determination to fight those behind such acts would only get stronger and that it would not hesitate to exercise its right to self defense.

What Erdogan fails to understand is that the religion he follows is what brought this right back onto their own doorstep. And unless they abandon it, it'll obviously continue.

ERDOGAN'S PARTY LOSES ITS MAJORITY IN TURKISH PARLIAMENT

A small miracle's occurred over in Turkey (Hat tip: Accuracy in Media):

Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted AKP party may have trouble finding the coalition partner necessary to form the next government, after voters dealt a stunning rebuke to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday, with strong losses in a national vote that stripped the party of its parliamentary majority.

Turkish voters effectively ended 13 years of one-party rule and stalled the Muslim nation's march toward Islamist control in historic elections. The democratically-elected Erdogan, through posts as prime minister and president, has held office since 2003 and had in recent years begun an alarming crackdown on the media, dissidents and ethnic minorities in what observers feared was an effort to move the NATO nation and U.S. ally toward theocratic rule.

In addition to announcing plans to expand the powers of his office, Erdogan had come under intense criticism for building a 1,000-room presidential palace, which was rumored to have gold-plated toilet seats.

"The dictator has collapsed," proclaimed the Yurt newspaper headline Monday.

Erdogan's party is now left with few options to form a new government, after it was stripped of its parliamentary majority and opposition parties ruled out joining it in a coalition pact. The Islamic-based Justice and Development Party, known as the AKP, won about 41 percent of the votes in Sunday's election and was projected to take 258 seats -- 18 below the minimum required to rule alone.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, an Erdogan ally and fellow AKP member, convened his cabinet and party executives Monday to discuss the party's options. Davutoglu will need to choose the most likely course to remain in power, whether by coaxing a reluctant opponent to the table or by trying to rule alone in a parliament where the AKP will be outnumbered by three empowered rivals.

The election result also puts Erdogan's hopes of passing constitutional changes that would have boosted his powers on hold. He is likely to see his preeminent position in Turkish politics erode without the ability to steer the government through his party.

We have to hope he's been crippled, but also be wary that he could decide to just wipe out democratic laws within an instant if he wanted to, much like the Nazis did during WW2. For now, it looks like a fortunate turn of events is happening, and Erdogan's been weakened deservedly.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

I expect Erdogan to take by fiat what he can no longer win with votes. He can be confident because of the way the world has allowed Putin to do as he pleases. And Iran. And no one will stop him. Certainly not his pal Obama.

ONCE AGAIN, OBAMA REFUSES TO USE THE TERM "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"

For the 100th memorial to the year when the Ottoman Turkish jihadists slaughtered 1.5 Armenians during WW1, Obama has once again refused to use honest wording, all because he doesn't want to alienate the phony allies the Turks make:

President Obama will again avoid describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as "genocide," drawing more criticism from those who note he pledged to do so during his 2008 campaign.

Turkey, a key NATO ally, objects to use of the term genocide.

"President Obama's surrender to Turkey represents a national disgrace — it is, very simply, a betrayal of truth, a betrayal of trust," said Ken Hachikian, chairman of Armenian National Committee of America.

[...] Hachikian said the White House appears to be outsourcing policy to Turkey.

"With the world's attention drawn this April 24th to worldwide Armenian Genocide Centennial commemorations, President Obama will, tragically, use the moral standing of our nation not to defend the truth, but rather to enforce of a foreign power's gag-rule," he said.

That's just it. He's kowtowed yet again to a country that's plunging into the darkness of Islam, and a country that's likely to become as bad as Iran in the future.

Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media

MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.

ANOTHER REASON TO KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO

http://nytimes.com/2014/12/02/world/europe/russian-gas-pipeline-turkey-south-stream.html

SHIN BET FOILS ATTACKS ON JERUSALEM BY HAMAS

BBC: Israel 'foils Hamas cell planning Jerusalem attacks' 

Simmering city 

Israel's internal security service says it has uncovered a Hamas cell in the West Bank that was planning to carry out a series of attacks in Jerusalem. 

Shin Bet said it had arrested more than 30 militants who were trained abroad, and recovered weapons and explosives. 

They planned to kidnap Israelis and their targets for attack included a football stadium in Jerusalem and the city's light rail system, it alleged. 

The arrests come at a time of rising Israeli-Palestinians tension. 

Over the past month, 11 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians, including four rabbis and a policeman who were stabbed and shot at a synagogue in Jerusalem last week. Twelve Palestinians have also been killed, including several of those who carried out the attacks. 

'Many more' 

Shin Bet said the militants whose arrests were revealed on Thursday had plotted to attack Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium and a tram, as well as carry out car bombings and kidnap Israelis in the West Bank and oversees. 

The suspects - who include a number of Palestinians from the West Bank, two Jordanians and a Kuwaiti - had received orders from Hamas officials based in Turkey, it added.

LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:

• THESE ATTACKS WERE PLANNED BY HAMAS - WHO IS GETTING $5BILLION FROM THE EU AND USA.

• AND THESE ATTACKS WERE PLANNED IN TURKEY - A MEMBER OF NATO.

• UNTIL HAMAS IS STRANGLED MONETARILY, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO PLAN AND CARRY OUT ATTACKS.

• HAMAS DESERVES SANCTIONS EVERY BIT AS SEVERE AS THOSE AGAINST RUSSIA AND IRAN.

• BUT INSTEAD, OBAMA COORDINATES GIVING THEM MORE MONEY THAN EVER.

• MEANWHILE, OBAMA'S PAL ERDOGAN ALLOWS HAMAS TO OPERATE IN TURKEY - AS HE HELPS THEM AND THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT - TYPIFIED BY CODE PINK AND HRW - TRY TO UNDERMINE THE ISRAELI BLOCKADE. (WHILE DOING NOTHING ABOUT THE EGYPTIAN ONE!)

• ISRAEL WON'T GET PEACE UNTIL OBAMA AND ERDOGAN AND IRAN ARE TOPPLED.

NEITHER WILL THE REST OF THE WORLD...

THE SOONER WE GET RID OF OBAMA , THE SOONER THE WORLD WILL GET MORE PEACEFUL.

SHIT: OBAMA CAN'T OR WON'T EVEN HIRE A NEW SECDEF! AT A TIME AS DANGEROUS AS EVER FOR THE USA AND OUR ALLIES!

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: OBAMA IS A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM.

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE USA IS HAVING 3 DOZEN CITIES ATTACKED BY FERGUSON INTIFADAS AS ISRAEL IS FACING A THIRD, THE JERUSALEM INTIFADA.

THIS IS WHAT THEY DO.
THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WAS TRAINED TO DO.
THIS IS ALINSKYITE STRATEGY.

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IS IS TO SMASH IT.

ERDOGAN KILLING KURDS, NOT ISIS

AP/HUFFPO:

Kurdish protesters clashed with police in Turkey leaving at least 14 people dead and scores injured Tuesday as demonstrators in Brussels forced their way into the European Parliament, part of Europe-wide demonstrations against the Islamic State group's advance on a town on the Syrian-Turkish border.

ERDOGAN IS ON THE OTHER SIDE.

TIME TO KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO.

TURKEY WANTS A BACKSTAGE ROLE IN NATO

Turkey, already a facilitator of Islamofascism, is seeking to meddle in NATO affairs:

Turkey is the big Muslim power that sits atop raging conflicts in Iraq and Syria, so it might be expected to take a leading role in the NATO coalition announced this month to take on the Islamic State group.

Instead it has told allies that it will stay quietly behind the scenes, keeping its soldiers out of combat operations and even declining to allow NATO to use its bases or territories to launch air attacks.

The reticence has roots in two dilemmas: the Islamic State group holds dozens of Turkish hostages, including diplomats, and Turkey is wary of boosting its rebellious Kurdish minority in the battle against Islamic State group enemies in Iraq.

Turkey's position is complicated by its eagerness to uproot the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, which led to tolerance of anti-Assad Islamist fighters taking refuge on its side of the Syrian border — and may have given the Islamic State group some breathing room in Turkey. More recently, it has been forced to confront the threat that the group posed.

Only to its own regime, not Syria's. We shouldn't be surprised if Turkey would want to take over Syria! Indeed, that's a vision doubtlessly shared by opposing Muslim factions, to take over the other's territory.

The only reason why Turkey is getting involved here is obviously because of the hostages taken from their side. It has nothing to do with any British or American hostages who've been taken by ISIS. Regardless of that, Turkey shouldn't be trusted to be of any help to NATO, and their involvement here could be very dangerous.

MORE PROOF NATO NEEDS TO EXPEL TURKEY: THEY'RE ALIGNING WITH IRAN

TURKEY ROLLED OUT THE RED CARPET FOR THE IRANIAN CLERIC PRESIDENT.

TURKEY IS NOT ON EUROPE'S OR THE WEST'S SIDE IN THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST JIHADISM.

KEEPING THEM IN NATO IS INSANE.

PUTIN OUTMANEUVERS OBAMA, AGAIN!!!

Most of the analysis of the annexation of Crimea by Russia has focused upon local historical issues, NATO, and the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine.  If we zoom out just a bit we can see that Russia's assertiveness in Crimea and Ukraine is part of a larger geopolitical contest between the USA and Russia   (yes - Mitt Romney was right...).  Some critics of the Obama Administration would argue that the failure of American Foreign Policy is a feature and not a bug.  Putting that discussion aside, let me explain to you why I see the annexation of Crimea as a significant blow to the USA and some of  it's allies.

President Obama's failed RED LINE in the Syrian sand, and the face saving response by Putin that followed, was when Putin recognised the true weakness of the Obama Administration.  The decision to reassert control over Crimea was taken, not just as a response to Ukrainian movement towards Europe, not just as a move to secure the operations of the Black Sea Fleet, but as the essential step to guarantee that Russia could project power in the region.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Iran. With a more assertive Russia and a timid USA,  it is even more unlikely that the United States will take part in any preemptive strike against Iran.  Especially when such action would require the support of Turkey.  Clearly the USA is on retreat in the region - and Russia - not Nato - is in position to fill the power vacuum.

FOUR THINGS WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO CONTAIN PUTIN'S CRIMEAN GAMBIT

• SEND MISSILE DEFENSES TO THE NATIONS WHICH WERE SUPPOSED TO GET THEM BEFORE OBAMA CANCELED BUSH'S DEALS: NYTIMES/2009: 

• In one of the biggest national security reversals of his young presidency, Mr. Obama canceled former President George W. Bush’s plans to station a radar facility in the Czech Republic and 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland. 

• ADMIT UKRAINE TO NATO: WIKI:

• Plans for Ukrainian membership to NATO were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych [PUTIN'S CROOKED PUPPET] was elected President.

• SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN AND BEGIN DEPLOYING EVERYTHING WE NEED THERE TO HAVE A STABLE MILITARY PLATFORM ON RUSSIA'S SOUTHERN FLANK. NOW IS THE TIME (AN ARTICLE FROM THE IRAQI PRESS 2 WEEKS AGO):  

• Conflict between Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan over oil exports has resulted in something of a financial crisis in the northern region. State employees haven’t been paid, MPs are threatening to resign and there are rumours that Turkey was asked for a loan. Negotiations are continuing but some senior politicians are saying that Iraqi Kurdistan is ready for financial independence if a compromise is not reached soon.

• ADMIT ISRAEL TO NATO.

THESE ARE BOLD AND WOULD REQUIRE RESOLVE AND COURAGE.

I THINK NIXON, TRUMAN, CHURCHILL, DUBYA BUSH - EVEN BJ CLINTON - WOULD DO THEM.

OBAMA IS EITHER TOO TIMID OR ACTUALLY WORKING FOR VLAD AND THE CHINESE.

HERE'S WHAT THE WEST'S ANTI-PUTIN STRATEGY OUGHT TO LOOK LIKE

1. PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR SITES AND MILITARY ASSETS.
2. SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF KURDISTAN.
3. KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO.
4. ADMIT UKRAINE, GEORGIA, ISRAEL, ARMENIA - AND KURDISTAN.

FOR STARTERS....

NATO, KOSOVO, THE ARAB LEAGUE, SYRIA... AND OBAMA

NATO led by the USA attacked Serbia to protect muslim Kosovars from conventional genocide.

NATO acted for humanitarian reasons and to protect Europe which could have become destabilized as a result of the Serbian conflict and the chance it could reignite conflict between the states of former Yugoslavia - an then spread to southern Europe.

The internecine civil war/jihadist war/Persian-Arab war within Syria has no such potential for Europe; it does have the potential to spread into a regional war and this is primarily a problem for the local countries and the Arab League.

If the Arab League sees the threat and wants it stopped, then the Arab League should take action. NOT THE USA OR NATO.

The security of Jordan and of Israel is threatened and they can ask for help from the USA and NATO.

But aside from them, we have no dog in this fight; in fact, is in our national interest and the interest of the Free World to keep the antagonists inside Syria killing each other as long as possible; the more militants - of either Assad's Iranian sponsored tyranny or of al Qaeda affiliated entities -  who die there the better.

The only direct action we should take now is to help innocent refugees and to establish an independent state of Kurdistan.

The Kurds have a legitimate case for statehood - unlike the so-called Palestinian Arabs. They would become a stable and dependable muslim ally in the region. The late Chris Hitchens made this one of his most passionate issues. In this case he was right. An independent state of Kurdistan re-claiming stolen territory now occupied by Iran and Syria and Turkey, and under the aegis of the so-called government of Iraq, would give the USA a military base of operations, too - an urgently needed one due to the fact that Obama failed to get us a troop agreement with Iraq and because Pakistan is such an awful untrustworthy ally.

This is a bold course of action - one beyond the ability or courage of many. It would take the political shrewdness and boldness of a Nixon.

As his desire to play a game of spades with Reggie Love over watching our heroic SEALS take out Bin Laden proved beyond a reasonable doubt, Obama has no such courage - or his heart is not into any action which hurts America's enemies.

Between Obama's dithering and his outright idiotic policies of appeasement, there is no hope that the USA will take any bold and effective measures against either Syria or Iran or North Korea Putin or China.

No good shall come our way until we have a new president.

Sigh.

ON EVE OF KERRY'S VISIT TO TURKEY, ERDOGAN COMPLETELY RELEASES HIS INNER ANTISEMITE

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been heavily criticised by the US, Israel and the UN for branding Zionism a "crime against humanity". He told a UN forum this week: "As with Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it is inevitable that Islamophobia be considered a crime against humanity." Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called the comments "dark and mendacious". 

New US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to raise the issue when he meets Turkey's leaders on Friday.

ALSO BBC:

New US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Turkey for talks expected to focus on the conflict in Syria. The two Nato allies both oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but differ on how best to support the opposition. The visit is being overshadowed by a row over comments by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called Zionism a "crime against humanity". 

US officials said Mr Kerry would raise the remarks directly with Mr Erdogan. Israel's relations with Turkey have deteriorated in recent years.

WE'LL SEE HOW OBAMA AND KERRY HANDLE THIS.

THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD NOT MERELY GENERALLY EXPRESS PUBLIC CRITICISM AND THEN NOT ATTACK THE COMMENT WHILE THE NUMBER 3 ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL - KERRY - IS THERE.

OBAMA SHOULD INSTRUCT KERRY TO PUBLICLY ATTACK THE REMARKS WHILE IN TURKEY. "RAISING THE REMARKS WITH ERDOGAN" IN PRIVATE IS BULLSHIT.

THERE SHOULD BE NO GREY AREA AND NO WIGGLE ROOM ALLOWED.

I DON'T EXPECT KERRY - WHO WAS SOFT ON ASSAD FOR YEARS - TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

AND KERRY'S BOSS & CONTROLLER - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA -CONSIDERS ERDOGAN ONE OF HIS CLOSEST FOREIGN ALLIES - ONE HIS SPEAKS TO REGULARLY.

IF THESE TALKS HAVE BEEN FRANK, THEN OBAMA HAS HAD DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEPTH OF ERDOGAN'S ANTISEMITISM FOR 5 YEARS - AND EITHER APPROVES OR CONDONES IT.

NOBODY SHOULD BE SURPRISED THAT A PRESIDENT WHOSE MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSEIN IS MAKING THE USA "SHARIA COMPLIANT"

JUST SAYING.

PRESIDENT MIDDLE NAME HUSSEIN SAT ON THE SIDELINES AS THE PERSIAN PEOPLE DIED IN THE STREETS TRYING TO OVERTHROW THEIR ISLAMIST OVERLORDS.

BUT BARRY HUSSEIN OBAMA SOETORO ACTIVELY SUPPORTED THE OVERTHROW OF MUBARAK AND THE ASCENT OF ISLAMISTS IN EGYPT.

AND OBAMA SAID, MORE OR LESS, THAT HE WANTS TO PROSECUTE AMERICANS WHO "SLANDER THE PROPHET".

MAYBE OBAMA AND HIS SALAFIST APPEASING COMRADES WILL ATTEMPT TO ARGUE THAT ATTACKING ISLAM INCITES RIOTS AND THEREFORE IS A FORM OF SPEECH THAT CAN BE ABRIDGED?

(BTW: INCITING VIOLENCE HAS ALWAYS MEANT MOTIVATING YOUR FOLLOWERS TO COMMIT CRIMES, NOT PISSING OFF YOUR ENEMIES!)

BUT I WOULD ARGUE THAT SLANDERING MOHAMED IS A TOUGH THING TO DO ON TWO COUNTS:

FIRST, HE IS DEAD AND YOU CANNOT SLANDER A DEAD MAN;

AND SECOND, HOW CAN YOU SLANDER A MAN WHO DID WHAT THE KORAN SAYS MOHAMED DID?

TURKEY'S RULING PARTY - THE ISLAMIST AKP - WANTS TO MAKE SPEAKING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. (FOR THIS - AND OTHER ANTI-WEST ACTS - TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.)

AS PAT CONDELL RECENTLY SAID [PARAPHRASING], SAYING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM IS NOT A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY - IT'S A DEFENSE OF HUMANITY; ISLAM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

BY EXTENSION... BECAUSE OBAMA HAS -

EITHER FROM NAIVETE OR COLLUSION -

AIDED THE ISLAMIST TAKEOVER OF EGYPT...

AND MADE A MESS OF THE MIDDLE EAST...

BOTCHED AFGHANISTAN AND RETREATED FROM IRAQ...

(WHILE DOING NOTHING TO STOP IRAN, AND WHILE TREATING ISRAEL LIKE A LEPER)...

VOTING FOR OBAMA WOULD BE A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

THERE... I SAID IT.

YOU'RE EITHER ON HUMANITY'S SIDE OR OBAMA'S; YOU CAN'T BE ON BOTH.

JIHADISTS BLOW UP 22 TANKERS IN AFGHANISTAN

Taliban 'blow up' 22 Nato tankers NEW 

A bomb planted by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan destroys 22 Nato fuel tankers carrying supplies to coalition forces, local officials say.

SINCE OBAMA WAS INAUGURATED GLOBAL JIHAD HAS EXPANDED AND STRENGTHENED.

• BESIDES KILLING OSAMA, OBAMA HAS NOT ADVANCED OUR CAUSE ONE IOTA.

• AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, EQYT, LIBYA, SYRIA, TUNIS - THEY'RE ALL MORE JIHADIST.

• EVEN TURKEY IS MORE HOSTILE TO THE WEST NOW THAN UNDER BUSH.

• PAKISTAN - A DIVIDED NATION, NEVER ENTIRELY HELPFUL - IS EVEN LESS HELPFUL.

• AND JIHADISTS IN EUROPE ARE MORE AGGRESSIVE TOO.

• RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE MORE UNHELPFUL THAN EVER TOO.

ALL IN ALL: UNLESS HIS GOAL WAS WEAKENING THE USA AND THE WEST, OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY HAS BEEN A MISERABLE FAILURE.

BY INVOKING NATO ARTICLE 4, HAS TURKEY SET THE STAGE FOR DRAGGING US INTO THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA A LA "GULF OF TONKIN"???

BBC:

Turkey has called a meeting of Nato member states to discuss its response to the shooting down of one of its warplanes by Syrian forces on Friday. Ankara has invoked Article 4 of Nato's charter, under which consultations can be requested when an ally feels their security is threatened, officials say. 

... Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said the North Atlantic Council, the principal political decision-making body within the military alliance, would meet in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the incident.
"Turkey has requested consultations under Article 4 of Nato's founding Washington Treaty," she told Reuters. "Under article 4, any ally can request consultations whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened." 

Turkey wants to be sure of the strongest backing once it decides its official response, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Istanbul.
The government has promised that it will be strong, decisive and legitimate, and that it will share all the information it has with the public.

THIS COULD BE OBAMA'S EXCUSE FOR DOING A LITTLE "WAG THE DOG" BEFORE THE ELECTION.

ALL TURKEY HAS TO DO NEXT IS INVOKE ARTICLE 5 - AND THEN NATO HAS TO HELP TURKEY "DEFEND" ITSELF FROM SYRIA.

HE CONSIDERS ERDOGAN A VERY CLOSE ALLY AND THEY FREQUENTLY CONSULT ON THE PHONE.

PERHAPS THIS TURKISH JET IS OBAMA'S AND ERDOGAN'S "GULF OF TONKIN" INCIDENT?

REFRESHER: 

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident', or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now recognized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.[1] A sea battle resulted, in which the Maddox expended over two hundred eighty 3-inch and 5-inch shells, and in which four USN F-8 Crusader jet fighter bombers strafed the torpedo boats. One US aircraft was damaged, one 14.5 mm round hit the destroyer, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed and six were wounded; there were no U.S. casualties.[5]The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts"[6] (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. 

The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying U.S. conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.

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