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| Those Wacky Turks |
| 2010-06-03 |
| Robert L. Pollock, WSJ To follow Turkish discourse in recent years has been to follow a national decline into madness....while there was much hand-wringing in our own media about "Who lost Turkey?" when U.S. forces were denied entry to Iraq from the north in 2003, no such introspection was evident in Ankara and Istanbul. Instead, Turks were fed a steady diet of imagined atrocities perpetrated by U.S. forces in Iraq, often with the implication that they were acting as muscle for the Jews. The newspaper Yeni Safak, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's daily read, claimed that Americans were tossing so many Iraqi bodies into the Euphrates that local mullahs had issued a fatwa ordering residents not to eat the fish. The same paper repeatedly claimed that the U.S. used chemical weapons in Fallujah. And it reported that Israeli soldiers had been deployed alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and that U.S. forces were harvesting the innards of dead Iraqis for sale on the U.S. "organ market." The secular Hurriyet newspaper, meanwhile, accused Israeli soldiers of assassinating Turkish security personnel in Mosul and said the U.S. was starting an occupation of (Muslim) Indonesia under the guise of humanitarian assistance. Then U.S. ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman actually felt the need to organize a conference call to explain to the Turkish media that secret U.S. nuclear testing did not cause the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. One of the craziest theories circulating in Ankara was that the U.S. was colonizing the Middle East because its scientists were aware of an impending asteroid strike on North America. The Mosul and organ harvesting stories were soon brought together in a hit Turkish movie called Valley of the Wolves, which I saw in 2006 at a mall in Ankara. My poor Turkish was little barrier to understanding. The body parts of dead Iraqis could be clearly seen being placed into crates marked "New York" and "Tel Aviv." It is no exaggeration to say that such anti-Semitic fare had not been played to mass audiences in Europe since the Third Reich.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Sounds like they get their news from Louis Farrakhan. Is there like a rule or something that demands muzzy's to believe BS? |
| Posted by: Jefferson 2010-06-03 14:51 |
| #1 Wacky? No. Blood libel? Yes. Let's sell the Turks 100 of our most advanced stealth fighters. That's sure to make them like us. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-03 13:43 |