Good news! Another Islamist government wants ICBMs! Huzzah!
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A strategic game-changer in the Near East? A recipe for war? Or both?
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Pelosi’s Turkey misadventure
I’ve seen a lot written about the Congressional Democrats odd ‘urgency’ to pass a non-binding resolution declaring that the massacre that happened 90 years ago against Armenians by Turkey is genocide, but nothing gets to the heart of the matter like this piece written by Jed Babbin, where he discusses what’s at stake – and the real reasons behind the Dem push for this resolution:
Democrats support the troops, bbbbbut …
… not enough to refrain from deliberately alienating a key ally in the war on terror (Turkey) at a crucial time during the Iraq war. Joust The Facts has a good summary of the issue here.
US-Turkey relations: Speaker Pelosi at it again
Jim Geraghty has a must-read on the latest shenanigans Speaker Pelosi is up to as she once again tries to throw her weight around on the world stage as the third in line to the presidency and this time she’s not just ticking off the right – she’s upsetting the left, too: