Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Turkey Is a Bad Ally

Posted: 12/08/2014

Being a superpower has its drawbacks. One of them is being manipulated by smaller countries that know that America wants to be "Big Man on Campus" in the world, usually giving its taxpayers only vague "influence" around the globe for all the money they pour into military power and foreign aid. However, sophisticated countries usually flatter the musclebound purveyor of military power, labeling it the "indispensable nation," without which the world would fall into chaos and ruin. These wily countries also normally at least make some attempt to justify U.S. armed intervention into a particular problem in their region in terms of being required for American security, as well as their own. In other words, they try to argue that it also would be in the American interest to solve their problem. But not Turkey.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/turkey-is-a-bad-ally_b_6287916.html