Having successfully convinced most of the UN Security Council to agree to new sanctions against Iran, the US angrily condemned Turkey today for its role in opposing the sanctions, calling its no vote on the issue a “slap in the face” to President Obama.
The State Department has followed up with a demand that Turkey and Brazil, the other nation to vote no on the resolution, offer some sort of explanation for their actions.
If the State Department uses its imagination, however, the explanation will be readily apparent. After the US spent five months selling the sanctions as punishment for Iran’s refusal to agree to a third party enrichment deal, Turkey and Brazil dispatch officials to Iran and successfully finalized the deal with the Iranians, only to have the US angrily condemn them for pushing the deal and insisting it was “too late.”
Turkey angrily shot back that it would have been dishonourable to vote for the sanctions, and insisted that it still believes that diplomacy is the only way to solve the nuclear dispute.
Have they put Brazil and Turkey on the Terrorist Nations list yet?
only a matter of time
Approaching then the logical limit–a world of Terrorists and Terrorist nation states, except the US and Israel?
Oh, goody gum drops, we get to lose all our real allies and will end up as isolated as Israel. This is just ridiculous.
For daring to have an opinion different from the pig-headed and corrupt American political establishment, they are "slammed". America is like the suck-ass kid who takes his ball and goes home.
A "slap to the face"? Hell… The man needs a kick to the balls and an elbow to the jaw to knock some sense into his Nobel Prize fevered skull. He's as much, and more so, crazy like his predecessor.
Buttache OFucker is worse than Bushler which is shocking to even cynical me after 7.25 years of Bushler war crimes.
After Gertrude Stein, Obama is Bush Lite is Clinton Heavy Duty.
Hurray for these countries that are standing up to shuck and jive Obama. These fascists with the bankers, Wall Street pimps and the Military Industrial Complex, are deluded if they believe that they control whe world. Some day this country is going to be bitch slapped senseless.
The governments of Turkey and Brazil made a big mistake. The reason for this mistake is the leaders of the government of Turkey and Brazil are living in a bygone age in which the purpose of diplomacy was to avoid war and resolve conflicts peacefully. LIving in this bygone age, they actually thought Obama was sincere in his desire for a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff with the Iranian government. The Turkish and Brazilian governments have to realize this is the 21st Century. In our modern and civilized times the purpose of diplomacy is not to avoid war, but to give war an air of legitimacy. By voting no on Iran sanctions the Brazilian and Turkish governments tainted the veneer of legality and legitmacy of a future war against the people of Iran. For this crime, they must be punished.
Turkey has taken a quantum leap forward in its inadvertent campaign to get itself expelled from NATO. Well done, Erdogan.
WHY SHOULD TURKY STAY IN NATO ??? BECAUSE NATO IS BRINGING LOVE FOOD
MEDECINE TO MILLIONS OF MOSLEMS LIKE IRAQ AND AFGHANESTAN OR PALESTINE
OR SUDAN OR TO WHAT HUMAN COMMUNITY NATO IS BRINGING ANYTHING BUT
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION SO WHAT IS THE HONOR OF BEING A NATO MEMBER
EXCEPT FOR SLAPPING AROUND THE WEAKS AND HELPLESS I WILL LOOSE SLEEP
OVER IF TURKY IS OUT OF NATO FF NATO…
Israel really wants Turkey out of NATO.
Makes affairs complicated for them, doesn't it, and for the US?
When is the last time the US pulled a Honduras on a NATO country?
The Turks, like the Iranians, will move slowly, carefully, effectively.
Both the US and Israel are over their heads.
The European members will not agree to expel Turkey.
Give it a few more years in Afghanistan, and it will be the US that is expelled and Russia that is invited in.
Ever since Israel attacked that aid ship in international waters and Turkey had the nerve to complain that its citizens aboard were massacred, I've seen repeated posts from our Zionist friends on these boards demanding that somebody DO SOMETHING about the slaughter of Bulgars by Turkey way back when. Get them Turks. Shut them up. Now Obama is publicly criticizing Turkey. Could be just a coincidence, but the timing seems odd.
God Bless America.
Even not counting the military contractors, who outnumber the US and NATO military, the logistic and terrain multiplier suggests that 130,000 troops in Afghanistan is from the point of the negatives equivalent to 500,000 in Vietnam. From the point of view of the positives( what effect they can expect to have in "subduing" the population) they are equivalent to about 30,000 in Vietnam.
Very few people, including the naifs in US military schools, read Herodotus on the Persian Wars with any understanding at all.
Such understanding requires methods of abstraction that neither the teachers in the military schools nor the students are capable of.
Now back to your Sun tze and Cajun Shrimp Petroleum.
Ever since Israel attacked that aid ship in international waters and Turkey had the nerve to complain that its citizens aboard were massacred, the Zionists on these boards have been demanding that somebody DO SOMETHING about the slaughter of Bulgars by Turks way back when. "Get them Turks! Shut them up!" Now Obama is criticizing Turkey. Could by a coincidence, but the timing seems kind of odd.
Tlhere was a talk in 2000 and in 2006 to remove the Noble prize honor from Shimon peres. Can it be done from Obama.?
What is a terrorist? Anyone who opposes the American government's least desire…so what are Brazil and Turkey…terrorists.
All our other "allies" accept arm twisting or "aid" in the form of arms or money so what is wrong with these people?
"East is East and West is West" but somehow Brazil and Turkey lost their compasses.
well put!
Ending foreign aid completely is the key to ending the empire.
If Obama thinks he is safe from the attack dog of AIPAC or Israel proper, he is misatken. Look at Biden a self -admitted non jewish zionist , a moral and ethical suporter of Pollard mischief and wants him released.He has seen israel as the essence of American solution since 1992.He has taught his own teacher that is AIPAC ,how to educate Congress on the moral and political grandeuer of Israel.__He has echoed the 1982 idea of Oded Yinon of Israel to balkanize Iraq . Sometimes he has to attack AIPAC for not being pro-Israeli enough like himself. Biden effectively silenced Mr S Talbott when he was to be confirmed for Asst to Sec of State by Clinton Administration by questioning his views on Israel. Talbott has dismissed the idea of Israel being a strategic asset to US .
J Blankfort http://www.counterpunch.com
The rewards for licking the shoes of the master ? a kick in the balls while vacationing in israel by Nehnhoo.
sad story
Obama cant ever meet the needs of the israeli elite made of academics/military/politicinas/rabbis.isreal wants unquestioned loyalty and submission. Biden did everything that a human can do .He has called hima non_jewish zionist , in favor of release of pollard , being in the comapny of isareli -firster when it comes to attacking Iran, or legetimizing israeli attacks on flotilla or balkanizng Iraq per view of Oden Yinon of Israle academic or silecning the erudite observation of S talbott who said in 80s that Israel was not an asset but a aliability for US. Despite that he was kicked in the teeth by israeli elite again in 2010.
The only explanation Erdogan needs to give Obama and Clinton is the middle finger.