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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 19, 2017 - 05:26am PT
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I usually don't get too exercised about the daily shocks on the news, but I got sick to my stomach watching the videos of Erdogan's security forces attacking protesters as Erdogan was leaving the Turkish embassy in Washington DC yesterday. This morning, the NY Times reported a video showing Erdogan watching the attack from his car then he and all of the attackers left and flew home.
I am not a fan of Erdogan, but it seems inconceivable to me that a head of state of a NATO ally would sanction attacking citizens of a another country while in that country.
My blood is boiling.
Is news anywhere else, or just in my fake-news bubble?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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May 19, 2017 - 06:08am PT
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"we have to defeat Isis" it was a campaign promise. The erosion of our freedoms is merely collateral damage. Turkey bought influence through Flynn, fair and square.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2017 - 06:30am PT
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Got it. Thanks, Jon.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 19, 2017 - 06:46am PT
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Anybody who insists on dragging their asinine ancestral squabbles over here to their New Country probably deserves to get their asses beat.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 19, 2017 - 06:48am PT
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this is what passes for decorum among thugs. many of us are reeling from one disgusting assault on civility to the next
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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May 19, 2017 - 06:49am PT
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Erdogan is a thug. Thugs are very popular with our Commander in Chief. Unfortunately for human beings everywhere thuggery seems to be a growth industry. Is this the new normal, or just the "normal de jour"? The latter, I hope.
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c wilmot
climber
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May 19, 2017 - 07:25am PT
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This has to do with trump deciding to arm the Kurdish forces in northern Syria who are battling Isis. Much to turkeys dismay.
This quagmire of supporting various forces in Syria who spend more time fighting each other rather than Isis or the Syrian military has its roots deep in the Obama admin
What's tragic is the plight of the Syrian people caught in the middle of this proxy war
"Defeating isis" is just propaganda. Obama showed little interest and neither has trump. There is too much money to be made off of chaos and death
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/trump-kurds-syria-army.amp.html
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 19, 2017 - 07:35am PT
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What's most amazing to me is that those losers in Brussels still want to allow Turkey into the EU. Bureaucrats have no shame.
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drF
Trad climber
usa
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May 19, 2017 - 09:31am PT
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Gosh, where are the ST trolls leaping to the defence of a fellow thug life traveller of trump?
They're all HERE on this thread with you FB. Tooling each others 3rd eye on yet another Trumpish thread.
You brainwashed clowns are obsessed with Trump
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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May 19, 2017 - 09:36am PT
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Dont' see guys in suits goin fist-a-cuffs all too often....
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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May 19, 2017 - 10:40am PT
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This has to do with trump deciding to arm the Kurdish forces in northern Syria who are battling Isis. Much to turkeys dismay.
This quagmire of supporting various forces in Syria who spend more time fighting each other rather than Isis or the Syrian military has its roots deep in the Obama admin
What's tragic is the plight of the Syrian people caught in the middle of this proxy war
"Defeating isis" is just propaganda. Obama showed little interest and neither has trump. There is too much money to be made off of chaos and death
c wilmot..... he gets it.
with allies like Turkey, who needs allies?
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 19, 2017 - 11:00am PT
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Of course the thugs will claim diplomatic immunity so can't be prosecuted for their despicable acts.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 19, 2017 - 11:13am PT
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with allies like Turkey, who needs allies?
Well put.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 19, 2017 - 11:22am PT
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Welcome to 1930 all over again. This time instead of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, we have:
Putolini, Tweetler, Dutertanco, and Erdoglin...
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 19, 2017 - 12:28pm PT
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 19, 2017 - 01:51pm PT
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After that impressive show of power, I'm sure Trump will want to personally invite him to visit the White House, just like he did to Duterte.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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May 19, 2017 - 02:43pm PT
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Trump: Where can I get some of those 'peace keepers' for my rallies?
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