Viewpoint wrote:And you try to deflect from the real argument do you support and encourage to attack Syria? but thats how Turk haters work.
It's your lack of fully comprehending the written English language that always seems to let you down.
I never said that Turkey should attack Syria or even Israel.!
What I said was in many ways, is that Turkey CAN'T attack Syria or Israel, because Turkey is nothing but a toothless Tiger.
Turkey does not have any convictions, but rather, an opportunist when going against those much weaker than her, and even then, she has her hands full, be it be politically as the case is with the EU member state RoC or militarily, against the rag tag PKK. Turkey has not tested herself with any formidable force since before WWII, and for many good reasons I may add. Erdogan talks big, but can't deliver, because he has no balls to do anything based on convictions.
Here is an article
by YUSUF KANLI. This journalist for a long time was a pussycat without Journalistic Integrity, but as of late, he has shown a lot of Integrity in certain areas to write facts as they are.
Turkey started with a “zero problems” with neighbors strategy, but ended up having no friends around. Trying to find excuses in the “but conditions have changed” cliché is unfortunately not enough. If conditions have changed, what are your alternate strategies to take our nose away from the mess? Obviously, the strategic depth doctrine was an academic work that failed in the field application. Forcing results obtained in the field to conform the doctrine can best be summed up with two words: Academic obsession. This is a very serious condition.
Unfortunately, Turkey made a very serious mistake in Syria. It thought that, as in Libya the regime would collapse quickly and would be replaced with the AKP’s “brothers” the Muslim Brotherhood. The “Sunni brotherhood” was instrumental in embracing Sudan’s bloodthirsty dictator Omar al-Bashir, but Bashar al-Assad was only an “Alawite brother.”
The end result: Yesterday Turkey was the “leading power” of the region aspiring to become a “regional big brother,” but today it has become a country whose reconnaissance plane can be downed. The rising power of yesterday is today a fragile and unpredictable country…
Sparing words regarding the failure in ties with Israel, and without forgetting his major share in the mess Turkey is landed in, Davutoğlu definitely deserves a standing ovation for at least confessing that the Syria policies of the AKP government have failed.
July/09/2012
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/applau ... sCatID=425