Turkey used to be a sort of Muslim showpiece. It was a backwater country with gross prisons and a genocidal history. But at least they didn't cut people's heads off with swords and parade around wearing black chadors shouting "Death to America!" Islam was both quasi-suppressed and quasi-harnessed to prop up a very non-quasi nationalist ideology that emphasized "Turkishness."
Yeah, I know, I don't find that very attractive ether, but it seemed to work for a time.
No more.
President Obama's best Muslim buddy, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan just took over the country's main opposition newspaper. And now, in the wake of today's terrorist car bombing in Ankara that killed thirty-four people, they have blocked Facebook and Twitter. I admit I have a fair amount of schadenfreude at that last part, given Mark Zuckerberg's record at sucking up to authoritarian governments and boosting Islamo-fascism in general.
Is the ban permanent? Probably not, but we'll see.
Who set off the car bomb? It could have been anyone--ISIS, the PKK or the government itself.
But the country is going to hell.
Did I mention that they are also fighting a very real civil war in the south-east, which includes the cleaning out and leveling of entire towns?
They're filtering Muslim fighters into Europe while asking for (and getting) ransom money to do it at a slightly slower rate.
They're supporting ISIS in various ways including helping them out financially via the efforts of Obama's best Muslim buddy's son, Bilal.
And John Kasich--who 68% (or whatever) of all foreign policy analysts believe is the most qualified candidate to become president--thinks it's a shame that Turkey isn't yet in the European Union.
Kasich knows he mathematically can't win the Republican nomination, so he's obviously angling to become Sharia commissioner of Dearborn, Michigan.
If Russia attacks, it's possible we'll come in on Turkey's side and inaugurate World War Three. That would not be a good thing.
So, here's a better idea: Russia invades from the east; we invade from the west. Okay, Turkey's currently a member of NATO. Cancel that the night before.
Putin gets Ankara. Trump gets Istanbul. That's fair.
We rename it Constantinople, partly so they have to add another verse to that song.
Hagia Sofia, that mosque/museum or whatever it is now, becomes Christian again. Christians built it and Christians were martyred in it. We owe it to them to take it back.
Erdogan is flown to Guantanamo.
An interim occupation government is formed, composed of Armenians.
And Turkey goes back to being a backwater country, whose prime exports are candy and circus weightlifters.
