Originally Posted by
aboutime
Totally agree with you Gunny. I was in ISMEIR in 1986, or 87. Got to see the real, low down parts of Turkey. There was an AMERICAN AIR FORCE BASE near there, and the Air Force guys we talked to, said they hated th duty, and all the crazy restrictions.
We were told...If we drop our money on the ground by accident (It had ATTATURK on it), we weren't allowed to Step on the paper money if the wind got it. That would be DISRESPECTFUL.
As the Old Comedian once said: WC FIELDS...."I spent a Month in Turkey...One Night!"
He said that about Philadelphia.
Oh Hell yeah. Attaturk is their freakin' God. A typical Assyrian, Nationalist from Hell. His only accomplishment was he DID heep Turkey from turning into a Muslim state like the rest of these goofs, but he created a monster in the arrogance he infused in those people. And he was as ruthless and bloodthirsty as it got. The Russians and Germans wouldn't even screw with the idiot. controlling the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporous and the Dardenalles Strait didn't hirt. Was the only way to get from the Med to the Black Sea by ship. Still is.
Oddly enough, for a typical backstabbing Turk who "didn't take sides and remained neutral during WWII", the USAF installation we were on in Karamursel was a former Luftwaffe base.
Nothing is going to stop Erdogan but a kick in the ass. And HE is the one pushing it. I hope he pisses Trump off. That would make my freakin DECADE.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke