[Skybird]

Brandnew in, Obama bought the turks by newly creating a special office just for them. While they are said to agree to Rasmussen, I object this move, since I do not like the prospect of such Bakshish being payed to an ideologic blackmailer, and because the new office should especially govern NATO'S relation to Muslim nations. What is so special about Muslim nations that these need a special office beside the already existing General secretary of NATO? So, from now on there will be a weakened General Secretary, a NATO top leadership now needing to synchronise three instead of just two tongues (General Secretary, Military Top Commander, and this new Turkish office), and we again deliovered Islam the message that wer accept Islam to play a special role in the world that we accept by designing special terms and procedures just for it, and that nobody else int he world needs or wants.

Fantastic.

Everything but conflict. Pay every price, no matter how high it may be, just to avoid confronting the problem and maintaining the impression that all is nice and well. Take me by the word - it is only a question of time befopre the Turks want more bowing of NATO to Islam. Like they already demand - and practice - massive national Turkish influence in internal German policy making in order to boost Turkish islam in Germany, save it from needing to adapt to German cultural standards and ddefending Turks from any demand for integration - a reasonable and justified demand for integration that Erdogan just some months ago brandmarked as a crime against humanity, when he called Turks in Germany during his German visit to actively resist any calls for integration, and remain Turkish, and stay for themselves. Translating that from Turkish to Western language: you do not demand Islam to integrate and adapt to your home culture - but you adapt yourself to it, even in your home country, and give Islam special status that even your home religion does not claim anymore.

Obama showed some signs of naivety recently. A world without nuclear weapons, and a roadmap for that, he said, just two days ago, ignoring in that speech any thought about that being a mutual deal, and ignoring north Korea, Iran. And having decided for massive boosts of finacial aid to Pakistan - a totally misled, naive waste of money and direct support for the enemies which I bitterly criticised already during the Bush era. And now this honoring of Turkish claims for a special role for Islam. He means it well, no doubt - but you can do huge damage even when meaning it well. And most of the time this seem to happen: the greater damages often are done by those meaning it well.