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ChairmanAgnostic

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4. Not everyone accepts all demands of USA policy by fiat.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 23, 2014, 03:17 AM

Oct 2014

The Turk - Kurd situation is very complex, many decades old, and doesn't fit into the pentagon's memes very well. Would any nation simply roll over and Play dead when just because we demanded it of them?

America has become a shortsighted bully and people hate me s for it.

Yet domestically, there is almost no debate except seeing gramps McCain on tv demanding another invasion.

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Yes, Erdogan has been doing the wrong thing for a while. freshwest Oct 2014 #3

Not everyone accepts all demands of USA policy by fiat. ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2014 #4

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Impossible. The CIA is too busy bugging our senate. ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2014 #5

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