I am back in Cyprus now ready to fly home later today
Or Turkey will be made to answer. Having bases there isn't a green light to treat one's allies like this. Turkey has a virulent rising extremist side.
Do you have links to stories about US servicemen being attacked in US airports? I haven't heard of any incidents.
In the 14th year of the US Global War On Terror, 13 years of Death From Above by US Drones, US citizens and especially soldiers and sailors, are not terribly popular in the muslim world.
And the real shock is that so many here in the West don't wish to understand why the two could be connected.
Turkey better clamp down on this quickly.
"Allow?" What, was there some sort of "request to assault foreign military personnel" formed that got filled out?
Glad you made it out safely. Yours are a set of unique eyes so I have to ask, how effective are the Kurds and Iraqi army in fighting ISIS? Are they winning? Could you tell?
They may have been many things , but they where not religiousNot me, these were not ordinary criminal thugs nor were they the standard "jealous local guys". Rather, they were a relatively large group of religously motivated attackers.
In short, this may well be grounds for concern.
US Sailors Victims of Videotaped Attack in Istanbul - ABC News
Three U.S. sailors were assaulted today by about 20 people on the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, and the assault was videotaped and then posted on the internet, the Navy said.The American embassy said the videotaped assault on the sailors was "appalling."
The Navy said the sailors were on leave from the destroyer USS Ross when about 20 people who claimed to be from the Turkish Youth Union began "verbally and physically assaulting the sailors."[/FONT][/COLOR]
The video shows one of the Turks telling the Americans, "We define you as murderers and killers and want you to get out of our land."
The sailors were then shoved and had things thrown at them. Several of the Turkish men tried to grab one American sailor and white bags were produced which they tried to put over the sailors' head while other Turks chanted, "Go home, Yankee." The sailors wrenched themselves free."
WTF? Turkey is one of our NATO allies, but they allow a cowardly gang of thugs to attack three US sailors? Where the hell were the Turkish police? These sailors were dressed in civilian clothes, yet they were deliberately rooted out, roughed up, had bags shoved over their heads, then they were chased by nearly two dozen of these assholes. And the Turkish government says..... *crickets*.....
Why is Turkey even a part of NATO anyway? It refuses to allow US use of NATO bases in Turkey, it thwarts the US at every turn. Since when does Turkey have the right to pick and choose which NATO countries are "allowed" to use NATO bases, most of which were paid for in large part by US funds. This really chaps my hide.
Well, if that's your definition of murder, then every country that ever fought a war is guilty of murder. Which essentially is every country in the world. Your definition doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.
You don't make any sense.
US authorization of force in Iraq and Afghanistan is the legalizing of murder in those countries. If we had actually declared war on the countries it would be understandable that there would be civilian collateral.
That's bull****, you read that out of a comic book?
Its not. We cannot just go around and kill citizens in sovereign nations. If another nation did that here looking for enemies of their state, we would be outraged, it would never be allowed by the international community.
Our soldiers were under lawful orders, so they weren't murderers.
Just because they had orders that were lawful under US law does not mean they are right. I will say again: put yourselves in the shoes of other countries. Imagine another countries soldiers walking down your street with machine guns, tanks, and heavy artillery. They kill your neighbors and family in endless search for enemies of their state. I highly doubt, despite legal authorization of force in that country, you would feel the same way at that point.
Its no wonder U.S. foreign policy is currently such a disaster. This thread exemplifies the current american response to any situation: gross ignorance and insecure juvenile posturing. "Lets kick turkey out of NATO because some leftwing students attacked U.S. sailors and we are too stupid to know they aren't Islamists." Contrary to popular belief, being a wannabe tough guy in foreign policy doesn't compensate for inadequacies in real life.