Sunday, June 6, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Victor Davis Hanson: Should Jews Apologize to Turkey or Go Back to Poland and Germany? - '...Many of us who have had positive feelings about Turkey in general and the Turkish-American relationship in particular have seen this past week's events as a reminder of how different the present Turkish government wishes our relationship to evolve. Turkey's present reset diplomacy had long ago convinced the EU to have second thoughts about extending membership to Ankara. And despite the protestations of our own foreign policy establishments, most Americans sense that the end of Turkey's participation in NATO is only a matter of when, not if. Turkey wishes to reestablish, mutatis mutandis, its old Ottoman role as the more legitimate voice of the Sunni Muslim world. And that means it must sound radical to Muslims and sober and judicious to Westerners -- and sometimes it tries both at the same time, as we now witness...'
