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WATCH OUT FOR TURKEY’S PM RECEP ERDOGAN!

A DANGEROUS PAIR COULD PROPHETICALLY ARISE,

TO ADVANCE THE THREAT OF DISASTER FOR ISRAELIS,

AS PART OF THE EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH ANTICHRIST,

TURKEY IS ONE OF THE COUNTRIES INVADED BY ASSYRIANS,

TURKEY & SYRIA ARE EXCELLENT PLACES FOR HIS ASCENSION!

October 14, 2009

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The Assyrians invaded what is now Turkey and conquered the southeastern one-third of it to make it a part of the ancient Assyrian Empire at the time Micah wrote his Old Testament Book. I have always favored Syria as the most likely place for the Antichrist to arise, but I have always included Turkey as a possibility because part of it was a part of the old Assyrian Empire. I am not saying Erdogan is the Antichrist, only that he bears watching. He and Obama would make quite a pair as peace arbitrators in the Middle East.

Begin Archive Prophecy Update Number 66 from May 3, 2003

PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 66 ON MICAH 5

WHAT IS THE NATIONALITY OF THE ANTICHRIST

?

Part 5

May 3, 2003

Micah 5:1-4 – Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. [2] But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

[3] Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children

of Israel. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

These verses, exposited in Parts 1 through 4, were written more than 700 years before the birth of Christ. And yet they present: Bethlehem as His birthplace, His rejection as ruler over Israel, His last Passover in the daughter of troops Jerusalem, His head beatings by the troops of Pontius Pilate, Herod, and the High Priest, His rejection as the judge of Israel, His Father’s siege against Israel because of their rejection of the Son (which has lasted some 2000 years), Christ’s temporary rejection of Israel, His Second Advent as Messiah after Israel’s travail of 1260 days in the Negev Wilderness, at which time His brethren will return with Him to the nation of Israel, and the first 1000 years of His eternal kingdom, which phases into the final heaven age when the present earth and heavens pass away.

Micah 5:5 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Now, in verse 5, we find that “this man” will himself “be the peace” because He personally brings it in by Himself when he returns to be “great unto the ends of the earth” for 1000 years. “This man” who brings “the peace” of a thousand years is, of course, Jesus Christ. He is the primary contextual subject from verses 1 through 5. What happens to motivate His return to bring in the millennial reign is the movement of the Assyrian into the land of Israel. It is the final defeat and destruction of “the Assyrian” that will mark Christ’s Second Advent, and the beginning of His millennial reign.

When Micah wrote his prophecies the Assyrians had already driven into the northern Kingdom of Israel, and all that remained of Israel proper was its southern Kingdom of Judah. So what were the borders of the land of Assyria when Micah wrote the fifth chapter of his book? The borders of the Assyrian territory stretched northward from roughly where Ramallah is located in the West Bank to the present day southern border of Turkey, and eastward to the Mediterranean Sea to establish its western limits, then westward across the Euphrates River to the Tigris River north of modern Baghdad in Iraq. Technically, I suppose one might be able to say this future “Assyrian” might come out of southern Turkey, northern Iraq, or Lebanon, but since modern day Syria occupies some 85% of the area covered by the Assyrian empire at the time of Micah’s writings, I am persuaded the Assyrian antichrist will come out of Syria. The possible argument that Micah 5:5 was fulfilled during the old Assyrian invasion of Micah’s day, is thwarted by the context pattern of the four verses before it all still being unfulfilled at the time they were written, and then being linked contextually to verse 5 by “this man,” and “the peace.” Additionally, this argument is smashed by the verse that follows it.

Micah 5:6 – And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyri an,

when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

From the time of Micah’s writings to the present day, Israel has never “wasted the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof.” I will exposit specifically on both these locations in Prophecy Update Number 67, Lord willing.

The “Assyrian” of Micah 5:5 is not a European, an American, a Russian, an Eskimo, an Aborigine, an Ethiopian, or a platypus. He is an Assyrian, who becomes chief prince of the land where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were dwelling when Ezekiel wrote his prophecies. I will elaborate on this in future updates, Lord willing. The expression involving “seven shepherds and eight principal men” is most assuredly an oft used Hebrew idiom. It was the Hebrew manner of expressing “more than enough.” Seven is the Hebrew word for “complete,” implying “enough,” and when “eight” is added to it, the expression means “more than enough.” When the Assyrian comes into Israel, and treads within its borders north of Beersheba for 1260 days, then Jesus will return to restore peace for 1000 years on this planet. Christ’s Second Advent is accompanied by some 5/6 of the Assyrian’s armies being destroyed by the brightness of His coming. His destruction of the Assyrian and his false prophet will make whatever force Israel is able to muster up in the Negev for the battle of Armageddon “more than enough.”

When the Assyrian sets on

the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as the willful King of the North preparing to launch his final attack on Israel at the battle of Armageddon, he will be beyond all help by men and Satan.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Ezekiel 38:14-16 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Revelation 12:6 –And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

II Thessalonians 2:8 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Ezekiel 38:22 to 39:2 – And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. [1] Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Begin Excerpt 1 of Profile from About.com

Profile: Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan

By Pierre Tristam, About.com

Basics:

Full Name: Recep Tayyip Erduğan, also spelled Erdogan

Born: February 26, 1954

Significance: One of Turkey’s most popular and charismatic leaders, he led the resurgence of Islamic-oriented politics in the Muslim world’s most secular democracy.

Current Status: Prime Minister of Turkey (since March 14, 2003)

Notable Life-Markers: Was mayor of Istanbul, was imprisoned for 10 months on subversion charges related to his pro-Islamic stances, was banned from politics, returned as leader of the Justice and Development Party in 2002.

Early Life:

Erdogan was born on February 26, 1954, in Rize, a small city on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, in a poor family. He was one of five children. His father worked for Turkey’s coast guard. When Erdogan was 13, the family moved to Istanbul, hoping for better opportunities. Erdogan went to an Islamic school then studied business management at Istanbul’s Marmara University. While there, he joined the country’s growing political Islamist movement. He played soccer professionally and worked for Istanbul’s transportation authority until he was fired for refusing, on religious grounds, to shave his mustache.

Mayor of Istanbul:

After he was fired, Erdogan entered politics full time. In 1994, partly on the strength of his charisma and oratorical skills, partly on account of the deterioration of social services and the city’s exploding population, Erdogan was elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. He promised better services and better jobs for the huge influx of rural immigrants into the city. He delivered on most of his promises.

Imprisoned for Subversion:

In 1997, Erdogan said in a speech: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes are our helmets, the minarets are our swords, and the faithful are our army.” He was the leader the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party at the time. In January 1998, Turkey’s highest court closed the Welfare Party and banned its members from politics, saying the party sought to undermine Turkey’s secular basis. Weeks later, Erdogan was indicted on subversion charges, including inciting “an army of jihad” and “using democracy to establish an evil order.” A military court sentenced him to 10 months in jail, which he started serving in March 1999.

2002 Parliamentary Victory:

Upon his release from prison, and facing the court’s ban on the activities of the Islamist Virtue Party and Welfare Party, Erdogan helped found the Justice and Development Party, known in Turkey as Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, or AK, in August 2001. It was the 281st political party created in Turkey since the first party was set up in 1859. Erdogan was elected its leader.

Two months later, the AK swept to power in parliamentary elections with 34.2 percent of the vote, winning 363 of 550 seats.

Prime Minister:

Because of his previous conviction, Erdogan was banned from serving as prime minister or holding any government post. His party’s parliamentary majority quickly changed that by passing a constitutional amendment effectively revoking the ban. Erdogan ran for office in a by-election and became prime minister on March 14, 2003. He replaced Abdullah Gül, who resigned to make room for Erdogan. Gul served as foreign minister until 2007.

Continued Rise of Turkey’s Islamists:
In July 2007, the Islamist Justice and Development Party won 46.6 percent of the popular vote in nationwide parliamentary elections, solidifying Erdogan’s position. Erdogan backed Abdullah Gul’s bid for the presidency, which Gul won on Aug. 28, 2007, becoming Turkey’s 14th president.

Head-Scarf Controversy:
In early 2008, Erdogan led the parliamentary charge to repeal Turkey’s ban on wearing the Islamic head scarf on private or public university campuses, in government buildings or in schools. Parliament voted in February 2008 to repeal the ban, handing Erdogan a major victory. But the changes must first be approved by the president and pass constitutional muster through the nation’s Constitutional Court, a secular institution.

Erdogan has moderated his positions the stronger his party’s hold on Turkish politics has become. Even though he once called the European Union a “Christian club,” he supports Turkey’s bid to join the Union. He supported the Bush administration’s request in 2003 to use Turkey as a staging ground for the invasion of Iraq, but Erdogan and Bush were rebuffed by the Turkish Parliament. Erdogan has overseen the moderation and reform of many Turkeish policies, including, in 2001, the abolition of the death penalty (except in times of war and for acts of terrorism), the abolition of torture in Turkish prisons, and allowing the use of the Kurdish language in broadcasting and education. But Erdogan has maintained a hard line against Kurdish separatists in eastern Turkey and has led the charge to pursue and bomb Kurdish militants in Iraq, or invade northern Iraq if necessary.

The European Union is resisting Turkey’s bid to join, saying Turkey’s human rights violations and its uneven economy remain a major concern.

Begin Excerpt 2 from Middle East Online via World News

The Erdogan-Obama Roadmap for Peace

October 13, 2009

Sami Moubayed

The hard-line Israeli government is refusing to commit to peace. A joint sponsorship of the peace process between Turkey and the US is what the region needs today — the wisdom, brains, passion, and credibility of two forceful men like Barack Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdogan combined, notes Sami Moubayed.

Eyebrows were raised at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in September, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to the podium and talked about the controversial report of South African judge Robert Golds

tone. The UN-mandated report, released only days earlier, accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza during the 2008-2009 crisis and possible crimes against humanity.

Speaking at a press conference right after the speech, Erdogan said: “There should be accountability for anyone guilty of war crimes in Gaza!” The only other leader to speak of the report at the UN was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called it “biased and unjust”. Furious at Erdogan’s support of the Palestinians, Netanyahu defended his country’s war on Gaza; drawing parallels between it and the bombing of Nazi cities during the Second World War. Erdogan said that in its capacity as a rotating member of the Security Council, Turkey was willing to bring the situation to the Council.

Erdogan also conveyed his country’s intention to play an “active” diplomatic role in the region and beyond, defining Turkey’s foreign policy as “zero conflict with neighbours”. Israeli newspapers showered the Turkish prime minister with criticism, accusing him of hypocrisy for claiming to be an honest broker, yet siding with the Palestinians by upholding the Goldstone Report.

This is the same 54-year- old leader who stormed out of the Davos panel in Switzerland in January after a loud exchange with Israeli president Shimon Peres. Erdogan lost his temper when Peres defended his country’s stance on Gaza, replying — red in the face — “President Peres, you are old and your voice is loud out of a guilty conscience. When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill!

I know well how you hit and kill children on beaches!”

Earlier in 2004, Erdogan had refused an invitation to visit Israel from then prime minister Ariel Sharon. Instead, he received a delegation from Hamas, headed by Khalid Mesha’al, in Turkey. He next turned down a meeting with then labour and trade minister Ehud Olmert in July 2004 and five months later, landed in Damascus, building bridges with the Syrians after relations soured with the international community, shortly after the UN passed Security Council Resolution 1559.

Erdogan’s Turkey has clearly been projecting itself as a mediator and a big sister to countries in the Arab and Muslim world, longing for a position that it once enjoyed as leader of the Islamic nation.

Champion

If anything, Erdogan’s loud stance on Gaza solidifies him as a champion and a problem-solver, more than ever before, in the eyes of millions around the Arab world. Turkish sources claim that Erdogan is not taking sides, but is willing to hear out all sides — Egypt, Hamas, Syria, Israel and Iran — to reach a consensus that would further strengthen Turkey’s role as an honest broker and political heavyweight in the Middle E

ast.

Given all of this luggage on Erdogan’s shoulders, however, many in the West are questioning whether Turkey can still mediate peace talks between Syria and Israel, as it did in April-December 2008. Those talks were famously suspended unilaterally by the Syrians, in protest of the Israeli war on Gaza.

The Israelis have said on more than one occasion that they no longer want the Turks to play the go-between with Damascus.

Meanwhile, Western observers have been asking whether the Turks can really fill in the oversized shoes of the United States. The Turks were needed, many believe, when there was no honest US broker willing to sponsor Syrian-Israel peace talks. Now that Barack Obama is in power, with a declared desire to bring peace to the Middle East, the Turks have to take the backseat in any peace talks.

Others argue that the Turks never intended to hammer out a peace treaty between Syria and Israel, only to buy time and maintain a momentum, while waiting for a credible US broker to enter the White House.

This theory is not entirely correct. The Turks never tried to impose themselves either on Damascus or the Israelis, but were rather, called upon to play the go-between by both parties.

The Israelis might have more faith in the Americans, but clearly, the Syrians want to maintain the Turks in the peace process, having absolute faith in Erdogan.

The current bottleneck is in Tel Aviv, however, not in Damascus. The hard-line Israeli government is refusing to commit to peace, meaning that a peace process without serious US pressure is meaningless. A joint sponsorship of the peace process between Turkey and the US is what the region needs today — the wisdom, brains, passion, and credibility of two forceful men like Barack Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdogan combined.

That would be a win-win solution where all parties, the Syrians, the Israelis, the Turks, and the Americans, would be satisfied.

Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine in Syria.

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Ankara must decide

Oct. 12, 2009

, THE JERUSALEM POST

Who would have thought – Turkey and Armenia agreeing to normalize political relations. Armenia’s president planning to attend a football match in Turkey.

And George Papandreou, the new Greek prime minister, making Turkey the destination of his first trip abroad.

These are encouraging examples of how age-old animosities are being relegated to the dustbin of history.

Too bad, then, that Ankara appears to be simultaneously doing everything it can to junk its relationship with the Jewish state.

On Sunday, in an unprecedented slap in the face, Turkey cancelled joint military exercises that were to have included pilots from Israel and NATO. At first, the Turkish Foreign Ministry lamely denied politics was involved.

Then Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu admitted on CNN that only when the “situation in Gaza” is improved could “a new atmosphere in Turkish-Israeli relations” be established.

Analysts in Jerusalem suspect the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using the unfortunate civilian deaths during Operation Cast Lead as a pretext for distancing Turkey from Israel – diplomatically, strategically and economically.

ORDINARY Israelis find it hard to believe that faced with similar provocations – its population pounded by 8,000 rockets, murderous cross-border incursions, the kidnapping of one of its soldiers, the refusal of the enemy to abide by a cease-fire – the Turkish military would have refrained from taking action to stop the rocket fire and reestablish its deterrence out of fear that in defending its own citizens the lives of enemy civilians would be jeopardized.

Indeed, it is debatable whether more Palestinians died at the hands of Israel in the Gaza conflict than Muslim Kurds died in Ankara’s repeated bombardments of northern Iraq (though Turkey insists that the only Kurdish loses were to livestock).

Political scientist Efraim Inbar is convinced that Erdogan’s Islamic AKP party places greater value on Turkey’s ties with the Muslim world than on its political and cultural links to the West. Or does Turkey expect to jettison its relationship with Israel, cozy up to Iran and Hamas, and yet maintain strong ties with Washington and Brussels?

ISRAEL’S relationship with Turkey has always had its ups and downs. Turkey voted against the 1947 UN Partition Resolution to create two states – Jewish and Arab – in Palestine, but it quickly established diplomatic relations with Israel. In the 1970s, weathering an economic crisis, it began building bridges to the Arab world.

By the 1980s, thousands of Turks were working throughout the Middle East. The Iran-Iraq War cemented ties between Turkey and the Arabs when Saudi Arabia began supplying oil to Ankara.

Even during periods when the Turkish military was in power, relations with Israel were sometimes sacrificed to persuade the masses that the government had Islamic bona fides. In 1975, Turkey recognized the PLO though the group was then publicly committed to Israel’s destruction. In 1979, Turkey refused to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest because it was being held in Jerusalem. Following the Knesset’s passage, in 1980, of the Basic Law affirming united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Ankara closed its consulate in our capital.

Turkey even condemned Israel’s 1981 raid on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor.

Now, with the AKP in power, relations have deteriorated more systematically. In August 2008, Turkey broke ranks with the West by welcoming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Just before the outbreak of the Gaza war, Erdogan became angry at what he felt was his shabby treatment by Ehud Olmert while Turkey was mediating between Jerusalem and Damascus – a factor in his vituperative outbursts against Israel during the conflict.

OTTOMAN Turkey sought to hold on to its empire by using pan-Islam to legitimize its rule over the Arabs. But Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey as Western-oriented, secular and nationalist. Islam was disestablished. The Turkish army performed a watchdog function to protect these ideals. And Israelis knew that no matter what abuse Turkish politicians might heap on Israel, our two militaries continued to cooperate at the strategic level. Is that, too, now over?

Turkey is an irreplaceable ally. Israelis want our two countries to enjoy cordial relations despite everything that’s happened. The onus is now on Ankara to make plain that it, too, wants the relationship to continue. It would thereby also be signaling that Turkey wants to be a bridge between Islam and the West – instead of yet another barrier.

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WATCH OUT for Erdogan and Obama PEACE PLAN,

Turkey, Syria, and Iran DRAWING CLOSER Together!

Diplomatic Diplomacy Becomes DIPLOMATIC DISASTER!

Diplomatic Dialog Becomes a Deadly DIALOG NIGHTMARE!

Democrat Politics: Iraq War Wrong – Afghanistan Right War,

Now exploding in their President’s face as Foreign Policy Sinks

In the Middle East and on North Korean platforms of Aggression!

Great Eloquent And Condescending Speeches Don’t Impress Islam,

Nor do they impress North Korea – only far left fans of Barack Obama!

Charles Krauthammer, Barry Rubin, and Caroline Glick, IN MY Estimation,

Are the best three analysts on Middle East Events – Always a Good Read!

October 14, 2009

Begin Excerpt 1 from THE JERUSALEM POST

Young Hamlet’s Afghan agony

October 11, 2009

Charles Krauthammer , THE JERUSALEM POST

The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious – particularly about things like war, about which until January 20 of this year Democrats were decidedly unserious.

When the Iraq War (which a majority of Senate Democrats voted for) ran into trouble and casualties began to mount, Democrats followed the shifting winds of public opinion and turned decidedly anti-war. But needing political cover because of their post-Vietnam reputation for weakness on national defense, they adopted Afghanistan as their pet war.

“I was part of the 2004 Kerry campaign, which elevated the idea of Afghanistan as ‘the right war’ to conventional Democratic wisdom,” wrote Democratic consultant Bob Shrum shortly after President Barack Obama was elected. “This was accurate as criticism of the Bush administration, but it was also reflexive and perhaps by now even misleading as policy.”

Which is a clever way to say that championing victory in Afghanistan was a contrived and disingenuous policy in which Democrats never seriously believed, a convenient two-by-four with which to bash George Bush over Iraq – while still appearing warlike enough to fend off the soft-on-defense stereotype.

Brilliantly crafted and perfectly cynical, the “Iraq war bad, Afghan war good” posture worked. Democrats first won Congress, then the White House. But now, unfortunately, they must govern. No more games. No more pretense.

SO WHAT does their commander-in-chief do now with the war he once declared had to be won but had been almost criminally under-resourced by Bush?

Perhaps provide the resources to win it?

You would think so. And that’s exactly what Obama’s handpicked commander requested on August 30 – a surge of 30,000 to 40,000 troops to stabilize a downward spiral and save Afghanistan the way a similar surge saved Iraq.

That was more than five weeks ago. Still no response.

Obama agonizes publicly as the world watches. Why? Because, explains National Security Adviser James Jones, you don’t commit troops before you decide on a strategy.

No strategy? On March 27, flanked by his secretaries of defense and state, the president said this: “Today I’m announcing a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.” He then outlined a civili

an-military counterinsurgency campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

And to emphasize his seriousness, the president made clear that he had not arrived casually at this decision. The new strategy, he declared, “marks the conclusion of a careful policy review.”

Conclusion, mind you.

Not the beginning. Not a process. The conclusion of an extensive review, the president assured the nation, that included consultation with military comm

anders and diplomats, with the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with our NATO allies and members of Congress.

The general in charge was then relieved and replaced with Obama’s own choice, Stanley McChrystal. And it’s McChrystal who submitted the request for the 40,000 troops, a request upon which the commander-in-chief promptly gagged.

The White House began leaking an alternate strategy, apparently proposed (invented?) by Vice President Joe Biden, for achieving immaculate victory with arm’s-length use of cruise missiles, predator drones and special ops.

The irony is that no one knows more about this kind of warfare than McChrystal. He was in charge of exactly this kind of “counterterrorism” in Iraq for nearly five years, killing thousands of bad guys in hugely successful under-the-radar operations.

When the world’s expert on this type of counterterrorism warfare recommends precisely the opposite strategy – “counterinsurgency,” meaning a heavy-footprint, population-protecting troop surge – you have the most convincing of cases against counterterrorism by the man who most knows its potential and its limits. And McChrystal was emphatic in his recommendation: To go any other way than counterinsurgency would lose the war.

Yet his commander-in-chief, young Hamlet, frets, demurs, agonizes.

His domestic advisers, led by Rahm Emanuel, tell him if he goes for victory, he’ll become LBJ, the domestic visionary destroyed by a foreign war. His vice president holds out the chimera of painless counterterrorism success.

Against Emanuel and Biden stand David Petraeus, the world’s foremost expert on counterinsurgency (he saved Iraq with it), and McChrystal, the world’s foremost expert on counterterrorism. Whose recommendation on how to fight would you rely on?

Less than two months ago – August 17, in front of an audience of veterans – the president declared Afghanistan to be “a war of necessity.” Does anything he says remain operative beyond the fading of the audience applause?

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US criticizes Turkey for ousting Israel from military exercise

October 13, 2009

Herb Keinon and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

The United States criticized Turkey on Tuesday for canceling a NATO military exercise because Israel also was participating.

Neither the Turks nor NATO has confirmed that Israel’s participation in the exercises over Turkey was Ankara’s reason for canceling it.

US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday, however, that “as to the question of whether there was a government that was invited to participate and then removed at the last minute, we think it’s inappropriate for any nation to be removed from an exercise like this at the last minute.”

He was asked whether that was what happened, and if Israel was the spurned country. He confirmed both.

Earlier, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of using phosphorous bombs on Gaza’s children.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, meanwhile, revealed Tuesday that Turkey and Syria had held military maneuvers last week – the same week Ankara canceled the annual Anatolian Eagle exercise because the IDF was to participate.

“One week ago, Syria and Turkey carried out maneuvers near Ankara,” Muallem said, according to Al-Jazeera. “This is important because it refutes reports of poor relations between the military and political institutes in Turkey over its strategic relations with Syria.”

Muallem’s comments came on the same day that 10 Turkish cabinet ministers traveled to Syria for the first meeting of the newly formed Turkey-Syria High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council.

It was the second military exercise between the two Muslim countries since April. At that time, Defense Minister Ehud Barak termed a joint drill between Turkish and Syrian soldiers on their shared border a “disturbing development.”

Erdogan slammed Israel for its actions against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead last winter. The Turkish premier was a caustic critic of Israel both during and after the offensive.

According to a report in the Turkish newspaper Sabah, Erdogan made reference to the canceled military exercise with Israel (and NATO forces) by stating, “While in some countries children are provided with comfort, peace, [and] the most advanced education and health opportunities, other children are faced with poverty, destitution, helplessness, war, conflict, weapons of mass destruction and phosphorus bombs.

We are forced to heed the sounds of persecution.

“Iraq was occupied,” Erdogan said. “Baghdad and Basra were bombed while all of humanity watched as it was broadcast live on their television. It was the same when phosphorus bombs were rained on innocent children in Gaza – the whole world, all of humanity, watched from their comfortable chairs and their safe havens. However, as all this was happening, unfortunately from time to time in international discussion platforms, the term ‘Islamic terror’ began to be used, and efforts were made to place blame on the Muslims and Islam.”

These statements did not budge Israel’s leaders from their policy of not decrying recent Turkish actions and comments, and the country’s top echelon continued to praise the relationship.

Barak, currently on a visit to Prague, said during a speech there on Tuesday that the Anatolian Eagle maneuvers had not been canceled, but postponed.

And then, for the second time in as many days, he reiterated Israel’s “strategic ties” with Turkey, and Ankara’s importance in the region, adding that because the relationship was important to both sides, it would not be harmed by the recent tension.

Another Israeli government official, however, was less charitable to the Turks, saying in response to Erdogan that “the Turkish government must decide whether it wants inflammatory diatribes, or pragmatism and cooperation for the benefit of Turkey. This choice must be clear and unambiguous.”

According to Israeli officials, despite Erdogan’s comments, Israel has received messages from Turkey in recent days urging it not to blow the matter out of proportion, to “let the wave pass” and not cause “collateral” damage to the multifaceted Israeli-Turkish relationship. In addition to a diplomatic side, that relationship also has strong tourism, economic and military components.

There are still many elements of the relationship that can be preserved, and getting into a public spitting match with the Turks at this time would only lead to a slippery slope that would harm Israel’s interests, the official said.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that “the direction Turkey is taking is not good, growing closer to Syria, Hamas and Iran. It raises questions.”

Vice Premier and Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom advised Ankara to “regain its composure.”

Syria, meanwhile, praised Turkey for refusing to participate in the military exercise alongside Israeli forces. Speaking at a joint press conference in Aleppo with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, Muallem said it was “natural” for Syria to welcome the Turkish decision.

“The Turkish decision was taken because of Turkey’s position toward the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip” in December and January, he said, adding that Damascus welcomed the cancellation, “because Israel always attacks the Palestinian people, maintains an embargo on Gaza and rejects any Turkish effort to resume [Syrian-Israeli] peace talks.”

Muallem added that “we encourage such cancellations as long as Israel is continuing its aggression and occupation [of Arab territories].”

Davutoglu said Erdogan would visit Damascus at the beginning of December.

In Lebanon, a senior Hamas official, Ali Baraka, said Turkey’s actions underlined its “responsibility” toward the Palestinians.

The United States gently criticized Turkey for canceling the NATO military exercise over Israel’s participation.

US State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said that “as to the question of whether there was a government that was invited to participate and then removed at the last minute, we think it’s inappropriate for any nation to be removed from an exercise like this at the last minute.”

He was asked whether that was what had happened, and if Israel was the spurned country. He confirmed both.

AP contributed to this report.

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PA ONCE again

shooting Itself and PEACE in the Foot!

Anyone who still imagines Middle East Peace is Possible,

Is living in a dream world filled with Opium Pipe Fantasies,

A bird of paradise has flown up your nose and frozen Reality,

As the ten toes of Islamic clay and iron prepare for a final War!

Daniel’s Interpretation Of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream Is The Reality

That will soon descend upon the Middle East just as he Interpreted!

We would be wise to prepare for the coming of the Stone the Messiah!

October 13, 2009

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

The God of heaven will call all the saved of all the ages together in heaven during the “days of these kings,” and will initially “set up” his kingdom, from whence he will return to earth with it as its head, after the saved have been judged in heaven. Christ’s coming kingdom will “break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms” of the present world, and his kingdom alone will rule.

Revelation 11:15-18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, [17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Christ, the stone, came from the mountain representing God, without any human instrumentation, but by God’s Spirit forming his body in a virgin’s womb. Christ will return to destroy those morally destroying the earth.

All of the evil that came out of the Babylonian, Medo- Persian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires will be laid waste by his Second Advent.

Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

The Scriptures which follow describe the coming of the great Stone, the great Rock, coming with his kingdom.

Revelation 19:11-18 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Revelation 19:19,20 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and

against his army.

[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 16:15,16 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Jude 23 – And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Revelation 3:2-4 – Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. [3] Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. [4] Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 19:7-9 – Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. [8] And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. [9] And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which

are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Micah 4:7 – And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST

The Region: Sacrificing peace for propaganda points

October 11, 2009

Barry Rubin , THE JERUSALEM POST

Should the Palestinian Authority be the main advocate pushing acceptance of the bizarre Goldstone Report in order to demonize Israel at the UN, or might it just stand aside and let a couple of dozen Arab and Muslim-majority states take the lead in doing so

? This is – or should be – a minor issue, but it has escalated to push the real barrier to solving the Arab-Israeli conflict into everyone’s face once again.

When the US government asked the PA not to be the main sponsor in demanding UN sanctions against Israel, the Palestinian leadership agreed for a few hours. But then, unable to resist flaunting its radicalism and obstructionism, it double-crossed the United States. This step further sabotaged President Barack Obama’s efforts to advance the peace process, seemingly his No. 1 international priority.

The Palestinian leadership is once again shooting itself in the foot. It is throwing away a real opportunity for a state; it is sabotaging its relationship with Western patrons.

HOW TO explain this apparent perverseness, which former foreign minister Abba Eban once called “never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity”?

The answer is simple: When it comes down to a choice between continuing the conflict and trying to win a total victory that wipes Israel off the map, or making peace and getting a state, the Palestinian leadership always chooses the former.

And when it comes to choosing between being a bit more moderate and gaining Western support, or being demagogically radical and appealing to the most radical forces, the Palestinian leadership chooses the latter.

The Fatah-dominated PA doesn’t want peace with Israel; it prefers peace with Hamas, its rival that not only murders and tortures Fatah people but – one more irony – is the main beneficiary of the Goldstone Report.

Wishful thinkers beware! Reality is once again battering down your door.

The Obama administration is trying to make peace and wants the PA’s cooperation. If the UN goes ballistic and now bashes Israel as an evil, illegitimate war criminal – on the basis of Hamas propaganda, no less, which is all the Goldstone commission really purveys – this will not help the cause of peace and will wreck US policy. Israel will reject more concessions; Arab states will have another rationale for not making peace and will demand that the world punish Israel with sanctions or even extinction.

The Obama administration basically said to the PA: “Look, we’re getting you lots of money and diplomatic help on the basis of the idea that you want peace. No president in history has ever been more sympathetic and supportive of you. So stand aside on this issue for a few days.

Do us this little favor.”

But this is too much for the PA, which now faces protests and criticism at home for daring to make a small tactical concession that has no practical implication.

If the PA cannot even refrain from this kind of behavior because of internal dissension and popular pressure, can anyone expect it to compromise on territory, security measures, an end to the conflict, and the settlement of all Palestinian refugees in Palestine?

Think about that one for five minutes, please.

THIS IS at least the fourth time in the short, nine-month history of the new administration that the Palestinians and Arab states have done this to Obama.

Before the latest development:

• PA leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Washington for his first trip and said he had no intention of compromising on anything, but would just wait until the United States delivered an Israel that had to give up everything.

• Abbas refused to negotiate with Israel unless its completely froze construction on all settlements, with no exceptions, despite Obama’s desperate efforts to get talks going.

• Arab states that were asked to make small confidence-building steps toward Israel to help the president said, “No!”

So much for Obama’s apologies, his Cairo and UN speeches, strong words of support for the Palestinians (the people supposedly in an intolerable situation and desperate for a state), and his panegyrics for Islam. Flattery, Mr. President, will get you nowhere.

This strategy merely feeds the fires of radicalism. Unfortunately, the peace process of the 1990s and the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 did the same thing. More concessions breed more violence; more apologies deliver

more demands.
Remember that the peace process ended when then PA leader Yasser Arafat refused a state, along with more than $23 billion in aid.

Remember that the Palestinians, handed all of the Gaza Strip, made it a launching pad for rockets aimed at Israel, instead of making it a model for launching peace.

Remember that when the Bush administration was trying to be supportive, the PA made a deal through Hizbullah with Iran to bring in massive amounts of arms on a ship. Discovering how the PA had lied turned that administration against them.

Remember that in 1989, when the United States initiated a dialogue with the PLO on the basis of its stopping terrorism, the organization instead dispatched a terrorist unit to gun down civilians on a Tel Aviv beach. This action led to the end of the dialogue.

WAKE UP, people.

Peace would be preferable if possible.

Peace is a beautiful dream. But that dream keeps getting interrupted by recurring nightmares.

Those who lead nations and are responsible for the lives and welfare of their people, those whose duty is to inform the people, and those who speak out publicly have a duty to cast aside wishful thinking and face the truth, as demonstrated by numerous examples and historical experience:

• Israeli-Palestinian peace is still a long way off.

• The PA is unwilling and incapable of making peace.

• Weakness in dealing with this issue breeds contempt; concessions create more violence and extremism.

• A responsible policy is one that maximizes stability by keeping Hamas from taking over the West Bank and brings down its rule in the Gaza Strip; minimizes violence by supporting Israel’s right to self-defense; and does the utmost to raise the standard of living of Palestinians.

As for Obama and the European leaders, you’ve had the experience; now learn the lessons.

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IF RUSSIANS STICK TO THEIR GUNS ON THIS,

BAD NEWS FOR IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES!

A VERY SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT!

EXCERPT 2 EXPLAINS

EXCERPT 1

NO TOR-M1, S-300 FOR IRAN!

October 13, 2009

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

If Russia sticks to what you read in Excerpt 2, then Iran is in trouble, and it may lead to some concessions on her nuclear program. Apparently, the Revolutionary Guards Air Force Chief, upon hearing that Russia had suspended the delivery of its TOR-M1, S-300 air, missile defense missiles to Iran, quickly issued the propaganda Iran already possesses a missile arsenal capable of defending all its nuclear sites.

Begin Excerpt 1 from YNet News

Iranian officials: Our missiles are ready

Revolutionary Guards’ Air Force chief tells Fars news agency Iranian Sajjil missiles capable of handling any attack or serious threat from enemy state.

Meanwhile, Iran’s aerial defense commander says, ‘We’ll produce dozens of new antiaircraft missile systems’

Dudi Cohen

October 11, 2009

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warned on Sunday that the nation’s Sajjil missiles can handle any attack or serious threat from the state’s enemies.

General Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guard’s Air Force chief, commented on the sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear program and its program for the development of surface-to-surface missiles, saying, “Despite the United State’s economic, military, and defensive strength – it is experiencing a loss, but Iran continues to thrive despite the sanctions and its capabilities and strength grow by the day.”

General Salami, quoted by the Iranian news agency Fars, made these comments some two weeks after Iran carried out a drill in which various types of missiles were test fired.

The Sajjil has a range of 2,000 km (1,242 miles), and is a two-stage, solid-fueled missile, which can allow for faster alignment compared to the liquid-fueled Shahab-3 missile.

The Revolutionary Guards’ Air Force is responsible for Iran’s surface-to-surface missiles. The Revolutionary Guard’s army is separate from the Iran’s military, and was set up in 1979 during the Islamic revolution, with its followers considered extremely faithful to the regime’s ideology.

Meanwhile, head of the Iranian Air Force General Ahmad Mikani said his county’s defense system is highly advanced and added that Iran plans to produce dozens of new antiaircraft systems.

The general said Iran is capable of locating and elimination cruise missiles using its advanced radar systems. “We are now at the height of our defensive capabilities,” Mikani w as quoted by Fars

as saying.

The remarks made by Iranian officials are likely meant to serve as a signal to the United States and Israel – who are preparing for a broad military exercise this week –to indicate that Iran will be prepared for any kind of action necessary to defend its sovereignty and nuclear facilities.

Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

Russia halts TOR-M1, S-300 air, missile defense missiles to Iran

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

October 11, 2009, 9:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Russia’s abrupt suspension of consignments of advanced Tor-M1 air defense missiles and S-300 anti-missile systems has left Tehran high and dry for effective weapons to defend itself and its nuclear facilities against attacks.

Our Iranian sources disclose that extreme frustration prompted the boasts of Revolutionary Guards Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami Sunday, Oct. 11, that Tehran’s hi-tech missiles can repel any attack against the country.

He spoke in the nor

thern town of Sarri.

Regarding sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, he said: “Today, the US is experiencing demise despite its great economic, defensive and military power, but the Islamic Iran has remained abloom amid waves of animosities and blaze of sanctions and the nation’s power and capability are getting stronger every day.”

Salami went on to sing the praises of the Revolutionary Guards, its power and its missile capability for confronting enemy threats. Our Sejil missiles, he said, can repel any threat and attack.

DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the two-stage solid-fuel Sejil has a range of 2,200 km., is accurate within a 20-meter radius but is after all a ground-to ground missiles which is incapable of repelling missile or air attacks.

The IRGC commander was trying to lift plunging morale in his corps and the Iranian military; both know that denied the top-quality Russi an air defense missiles, Ir

an has no shield against an American or Israeli missile or air attack.

According to our Moscow sources, the Russians froze the transfers of anti-missile, anti-air missiles to Iran in the expectation of Saudi Arabia following through on negotiations for the purchase of the latest word in Russian anti-missile hardware, the S-400, which is more advanced than the S-300 system now withheld from Iran.

It has never been sold to a foreign government and even the Russian army has only two brigades armed with S-400 batteries. The Saudis insisted on making the transaction contingent on Moscow withholding the S-300 and Tor-M1 from Iran.

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Turkey Still Aligning to Become One of the Ten Toes on the Daniel 2 Statue!

October 12, 2009

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Daniel 2:41-45 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. [45] Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

There is a full exposition under PROPHECY UPDATES on our Web Site of Daniel 2:41-45 in our Archives, as listed below:

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 233B
July 27, 2005
10 Jihad Kings among the Kings of Revelation 19:19!
Part 1 – The 10 Jihad Toes of Daniel 2

Begin Excerpt from Our October 16, 2007 Web Site Archive Blog

Turkey Falling in Line with Iran and the Other Eight Toes!

October 16, 2007

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

When I published my first book, Tectonic Chaos, more than 30 years ago, I remember one preacher who sent it back to me when the U.S. invaded Iraq, because it made everything void I had taught about the 10 toes and 10 horns of Daniel’s statue and fourth beast being composed of Arab nations. He believed because I had said Turkey, a member of the NATO alliance, and Iraq, which we had conquered, would be two of the “10,” that I had been proven wrong. Just as soon as we pull out of Iraq, they will hate us more than they did under Saddam, and Turkey is now sliding down a slippery slope into the waiting arms of Islamic rule.

Begin Newsmax.com Excerpt

Turkey Forms Alliance with Iran against Kurds

Monday, October 15, 2007

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

U.S. ally Turkey and U.S. arch-enemy Iran have formed a military alliance to drive opposition Kurds from bases

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