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2017-01-05 The Grand Turk
Turkey questioning US use of Incirlik air base
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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Leave Turkey yesterday and transfer lots of weapons to the Kurds.
Posted by 3dc 2017-01-05 02:23||   2017-01-05 02:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "The U.S. is a very important ally for us. We have cooperation in every field. But there is the reality of a confidence crisis in the relationship at the moment,"

Irritating, isn't it? {Remembering back to the invasion of Iraq}
Posted by gorb 2017-01-05 02:33||   2017-01-05 02:33|| Front Page Top

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-05 06:01||   2017-01-05 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 If you could just extradite this meddlesome priest Muhammet Fethullah Gülen now living in Pennsylvania, we could all be friends once again.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-05 06:08||   2017-01-05 06:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone is going to have to explain to me why that air base is so important to us that we don't tell the Turks to go pound sand.

Cause the Admirals and Generals said if we closed Subic Bay and Clark Airfield the world would end. Sometimes the experts aren't. Change is hard on some people. Particularly those who refuse to understand that change is natural and the attempts to maintain the status quo are unnatural, and can be very expensive in the long run, far beyond their own immediate agendas.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-05 07:19||   2017-01-05 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I seem to recall something about Donald Trump having experience with construction... so he'd know how to quickly and properly construct a landing field in Kurdistan, right?
Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-05 10:42||   2017-01-05 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone is going to have to explain to me why that air base is so important to us...

Well, it's just a 5hr flight to Moscow, @1500 land miles. Ready naval resupply and egress to the Med and also a pretty good Cold War era ground station location for down links of low orbit surveillance nicely sandwiched longitudinally between Madrid and Diego Garcia. All in all, a pretty important historic strategic location for fighting the last war, as so many are.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-05 12:27||   2017-01-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Ahem...'last war' as in the potential, pending conflict of the Cold War era, resolved by Reagan.

Not the End of Civilization 'last war' so recently being promoted by the Democratic leadership.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-05 12:31||   2017-01-05 12:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Didn't Francis Gary Powers fly out of Incirlik?

But that was in ... lesee... carry the nine ... 1960? No, that was Peshawar, Pak. But some of the U-2 flights were out of Incirlik. Wikipedia U-2
Posted by Bobby 2017-01-05 13:55||   2017-01-05 13:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Safe to say we just got the proverbial two week notice.
Posted by Raj 2017-01-05 14:08||   2017-01-05 14:08|| Front Page Top

#11 The Turkish govt is getting to the level of Pakistan, where we cannot function there without a buttload of baksheesh. Even that does not work, re: 4ID bruhaha. We are beyond the time that we should be safely out of there. President-elect Trump needs to get us out of there quietly as soon as he takes office.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-01-05 15:02||   2017-01-05 15:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Leaving one nuke underground, to be removed with the last flight out, for insurance.
Posted by gorb 2017-01-05 15:26||   2017-01-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

#13 They are not allies. They are a third world country with trappings of second world. I had to walk through that shithole in Oct 1973. So-called maneuvers after we weren't allowed into Israel, and had no funds (just hearsay, that) to fly us back home for about ten days. Got a really close look at Turkey, found it well named. NOT my fave country in the world. We would be wise to get out now before hostage taking starts.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-01-05 15:33||   2017-01-05 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 It was a shithole years earlier. Amen to the nuke! Maybe leave a timer on it and fuggetaboutit!
Posted by illeagle 2017-01-05 17:06||   2017-01-05 17:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Screw that, invade, give the turks the Armenian treatment and then give the country to the Kurds.
Posted by Silentbrick 2017-01-05 22:03||   2017-01-05 22:03|| Front Page Top

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