Timothy Birdnow

Robert Spencer, writing in PJ Media, asks "why is Turkey in NATO".

In answer I say it's solely because Turkey provided us with a military platform during the Cold War, and because they control access to the Black Sea. I am fairly convinced we still have military installations/missile sites in Turkey. Officially we no longer have them there, being banned after the Cuban Missile Crisis, but unofficially nukes are present - see the Council on Foreign Relations report.

Turkey occupies a critical place in the geopolitics of Europe. Sitting astride two continents, it has a toe in Europe itself.

Also, Turkey presents a prime location for oil and gas pipelines to Europe. The Russians have sought a sanction waiver from the U.S. to build them. As a key component of America's Russia policy is predicated on breaking the Russian stranglehold on central Asian oil and gas, it's little wonder the primarilly Islamic nation has been courted by NATO and America.

Spencer's points are all valid; Turkey should never have been made a member of NATO. The geniuses who did that thought to wed Turkey to the West and figured it would make them into one of us. They never understood the poower of Islam over the minds and hearts of it's adherents. Turkey is first Islamic and has more affinity with that world than with it's allies.

Attaturk, a reformer, is probably rolling over in his grave. But it was inevitable; as a dog returns to it's vomit Turkey returned to Islam.

Oh, by the way, Erdogen is crowing about "a war between the cross and the crescent". The cross will annihilate the cresent in the end. Islam is but a heresy, a mixture of several old heresies such as Arianism, Manicheanism, and Mithraism with a few others thrown in for good measure. All of the heretics fled the Byzantine empire and settled in Arabia and surrounding areas, and the early Muslims absorbed them all into their counterfeit religion.

Mithraism, for example, has the concept of jihad at it's core (which is why Roman soldiers were attracted to it way back when). Manicheanism contributed several things, including ritual prayer facing in one direction (to the east for Manicheans, to Mecca for Muslims) and Mani was called "the seal of the prophets" just as would later be applied to Muhammed. Ritual purifications also had to be performed before public worship, and they were called to prayer by a cantor. Arianism saw Jesus as just a man and not part of the Trinity and said he was a great prophet, nothing more.

At any rate the Muslims have always been at war with Christ, and their hatred of Him will culminate in their joining in the final battle, one that Christ will win handily.

I will say this; Erdogen isn't wrong about an endless battle by the West against monotheism and belief in God. He thinks it's just against Islam, but the reality is it hates Christianity far, far worse. Ditto Judaism. But, coming from a monistic religion where everything is connected to everything else, he cannot fathom that Humanism is as much the enemy of Christianity (the religion that propelled the West to where it is) as it is of Islam. In fact it's not an enemy of Islam at all because the Humanists believe the enemy of my enemy is my friend and Christianity is the REAL enemy. They just don't like some of Islam's prohibitions, like men wearing women's clothes or doing the mattress Charleston with another dude.

Spencer is right; we should kick Turkey out of NATO. We have no shared values or culture or any reason to make common cause with them. And NATO membership used to require proximity to the North Atlantic; Turkey is not even remotely close.

A faux friend, a traitor,is worse than an honest enemy. We need to remember Turkey is not and never was our friend.

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