Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
Turkey Is a Bad Ally
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.
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