Caroline Glick has a very informative article detailing how Turkey, step by step, moved away from the West and in to the arms of the Islamist enemy. Its a sad tale of misunderstanding and blindness, and there is blame aplenty to spread around. I recommend reading the whole thing. With that, however, what do we do now?
Turkey is officially a NATO ally and a candidate member of the EU – but Turkey’s alliances with Syria and Iran make nonsense of NATO, while Turkey’s growing Islamic radicalism would make it a poison pill in an EU already under the Islamist gun on the internal front. We must adjust ourselves to that fact that the secular, Turkish State founded by Ataturk in the 1920’s is gone and that the Turkish government is decidedly an enemy of the United States, our allies and our interests. This will require some shifts on our part.
First and foremost, we must strengthen our alliances with Greece, Bulgaria and Georgia – the three western nations which border Turkey. All these of these nations cannot withstand Turkish pressure without our help – and an increasingly Islamist Turkey will eventually start pressuring its non-Moslem neighbors. Secondly, we must officially expel Turkey from NATO, so that they will it will no longer be privy to our military plans and capabilities. Finally, we should start to support secularist, democratic movements in Turkey, as well as Kurdish and Armenian separatism.
It is sad; but it might be just the way things work out. Maybe no one is to blame for what happened with Turkey – other than that basic of human nature, the ability we have to choose wrong, and the eagerness with which we do so. Perhaps this might work out, in the end: I, for one, would be delighted if some time before I leave this world, if a Mass could be, once again, heard in St. Sophia. Maybe this is just the first step in a re-alignment of the world…
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