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Submitted by Yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), Oct 28, 2009 at 03:28

Dr Pipes is an erudite decipherer of the trends in the Muslim world. Why then does he leave this question un-answered: Why "official circles in the West seem nearly oblivious to this momentous change in Turkey's allegiance or its implications."

The answer is simple. It is no momentous change at all. The West has just elevated a Muslim to world leadership, to be the captain of the appeasement ship. In the context of the War on Terror, nominating this Muslim born and raised man affiliated most closely with radical circles and the nation of Islam who has never served the United States in any significant way is tantamount to nominating Quisling to be the lawful Prime Minister of Norway as a puppet of the powers that be then, the National Socialist Party of Germany. Turkey has been with this camp before and is right back in it, this time fortified with the knowledge that the West has already fallen into the hands of the Enemy

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