WHO IS A BETTER ALLY TO THE USA, TURKEY OR ISRAEL?

ISRAEL.

Here's some more proof: Turkey is threatening to invade Iraq - because of attacks from the PKK:

Turkey will launch military action against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq despite frantic appeals for restraint from America and Nato, its Prime Minister has told The Times.

Speaking hours before the PKK, the Kurdish Workers’ Party, killed at least 17 more Turkish soldiers yesterday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey had urged the US and Iraqi governments repeatedly to expel the separatists but they had done nothing. Turkey’s patience was running out and the country had every right to defend itself, he said. “Whatever is necessary will be done,” he declared in an interview. “We don’t have to get permission from anybody.”

Mr Erdogan, who begins a two-day visit to Britain today, also offered a bleak assessment of relations between the US and Turkey, a country of huge strategic importance to Washington. He said that a “serious wave of anti-Americanism” was sweeping Turkey, called America’s war in Iraq a failure, and served warning that if the US Congress approved a Bill accusing the Ottoman Turks of genocide against Armenians during the First World War, the US “might lose a very important friend”.

MEANWHILE: For nearly two decades, Israel has absorbed attack after attack and given Arabs more and more - earning nothing but... more attacks. The only thing which has reduced attacks and made Israel safer is the wall.

Israel is such a good ally that she even acceded the US request not retaliate when Saddam launched dozens of SCUDS into Israel during the Gulf War.

With ACTIONS like these Israel proves it is an extraordinary ally - lobby or not.

TAKE THAT MEARSHIEMER!

Bottom-line: We should have jettisoned Turkey as a key ally when they failed to give us approval to use Turkey to invade Saddam's Iraq from the north. That happened a few months into Erdogan's reign and it foretold EVERYTHING. We should start redeploying all or assets out of Turkey so that the next president isn't held hostage by these budding islamists.