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  • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

    Originally posted by burd View Post
    Erdogan has not conceded.
    Erdogan is Mussolini with a slightly better haircut. He's a joke and his nation-state has all the cultural and military might of Spain.

    They had their chance and they blew it. But their timing was just barely off as these thing go.
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    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Erdogan is Mussolini with a slightly better haircut. He's a joke and his nation-state has all the cultural and military might of Spain.

      They had their chance and they blew it. But their timing was just barely off as these thing go.
      You're 103 years too late, Mr. Churchill.
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      • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Erdogan is Mussolini with a slightly better haircut. He's a joke and his nation-state has all the cultural and military might of Spain.

        They had their chance and they blew it. But their timing was just barely off as these thing go.
        He dreams Ottoman, though.

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        • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

          Originally posted by burd View Post
          He dreams Ottoman, though.
          I had no idea how literally true until I started reading about the founding of the AKP. They see themselves as the de facto continuation of the Ottoman Empire. Now all we need is for Iran to go full Persia and we can party like it's 1699.

          But he's still thinking small. Go Neo-Umayyad or go home.

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          • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            I had no idea how literally true until I started reading about the founding of the AKP. They see themselves as the de facto continuation of the Ottoman Empire. Now all we need is for Iran to go full Persia and we can party like it's 1699.

            But he's still thinking small. Go Neo-Umayyad or go home.

            He (increasingly) runs a country which has enjoyed a key location for thousands of years, and which is dominated by a male culture* that is shockingly prideful. I'm not a world traveler, but a walk down Istiklal on just about any night probably looks like any other cosmo city. But the rest of the country is vulnerable to his version of Trump's "make xxxxx great again" pitch.

            * Outside the home.

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            • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

              Originally posted by burd View Post
              a walk down Istiklal on just about any night probably looks like any other cosmo city. But the rest of the country is vulnerable to his version of Trump's "make xxxxx great again" pitch.

              * Outside the home.
              You could say the same thing about much of America. Turkey is still pretty rural. Rural places worship thunder and semen. BFE Everywhere is pretty much the same.
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              • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                Don't know how to do images here:

                Thanks Obama

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                • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                  That’s so perfect
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                  • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                    Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                    Don't know how to do images here
                    I do:

                    Last edited by Kepler; 04-14-2018, 10:20 AM.
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                    • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                      The Trump administration has condemned a suspected chemical weapons strike in Syria and is considering military action. "We are very concerned, when a thing like that can happen, this is about humanity," President Trump said earlier this week.

                      But humanitarian organizations are challenging the president's commitment to humanity when it comes to Syrian civilians — particularly those seeking refuge in the United States.

                      In 2016, near the end of Barack Obama's presidency, the U.S. resettled 15,479 Syrian refugees, according to State Department figures. In 2017, the country let in 3,024. So far this year, that number is just 11. By comparison, over the same 3 1/2-month period in 2016, the U.S. accepted 790.

                      "We are seeing the impact of the Trump administration's words and policy and actions," says Noah Gottschalk, senior policy adviser at Oxfam America. "That slams the door on refugees, and Syrian refugees in particular."
                      Tear that mother****er down.

                      https://www.npr.org/sections/paralle...ign=middleeast
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                      • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                        The Onion gets to the heart of it.
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                        • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          The Onion gets to the heart of it.
                          The good people at the Onion do God's work.

                          How cool would it have been to be a 22-year old college grad getting a job with the Onion in Madison in the early years? Possibly more so now.

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                          • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                            So who thinks Netanyahu is wagging the dog to distract from impending big/bad news in his bribery case?

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                            • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                              So who thinks Netanyahu is wagging the dog to distract from impending big/bad news in his bribery case?
                              You don't think that's because him and trump suck so much a-s they were bound to get a mouthful of the other one's ideas?
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                              Originally posted by Kepler
                              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                                So who thinks Netanyahu is wagging the dog to distract from impending big/bad news in his bribery case?
                                I think he is simply wagging Dump to get the US out of the Iran deal.
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