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Originally Posted by Skybird
On Turkey:
* Viewed through the eyes of the US diplomats, entire states -- Kenya for example -- appear as mires of corruption. If one were to believe the gloomy reports from the embassy in Ankara, Turkey is on a slippery slope to volatile Islamism, spurred on by the narrow-minded government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
All quoted by various articles of International Der Spiegel.
It will become difficult for Washington to promote Turkey's EU access anymore as a win for stability, progress and democracy, if it now is shown that in reality they judge it to fall back into the rule of Islamic fundamentalism.
It seems, by the quick summary of the first articles giving general overviews, that a whole lot of cables from the ME countries shows how stunningly weak US position there is, that the US gets instrumentalised by local power factions who abuse its naivety and lacking insight, and that the internal assessment of conditions in these countries is far more negative then publicly claimed by the US government. Which let's US foreign policies appear even more self-contradicting and lacking strategic orientation than even I have alwys claimed they are.
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If only the EU had a pair of @@ not only to stop Turkey for even thinking about EU membership but also tell the US to mind their business.
Don't they have 2 wars to wage, and maybe a third one with Iran ?
Maybe we should start by tearing down NATO and US presence in europe. The cold war is no more, we don't need americans medling in european affairs.
As for Italy, all I can say is have a good laugh, criminals always come together
