Israel Goes Cold Turkey, Part 4

And right on cue, John Cole flags down the beginnings of the Village media backlash against Turkey.

To follow Turkish discourse in recent years has been to follow a national decline into madness. Imagine 80 million or so people sitting at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. They don't speak an Indo-European language and perhaps hundreds of thousands of them have meaningful access to any outside media. What information most of them get is filtered through a secular press that makes Italian communists look right wing by comparison and an increasing number of state (i.e., Islamist) influenced outfits. Topics A and B (or B and A, it doesn't really matter) have been the malign influence on the world of Israel and the United States.

Nice.  And this:

The obvious answer to the question of “Who lost Turkey?”—the Western-oriented Turkey, that is—is the Turks did. The outstanding question is how much damage they’ll do to regional peace going forward.

Guess what kids?  Rupert Murdoch and his noise machine has declared that Turkey is now the Enemy.  The pressure will ratchet up to throw them out of NATO and the EU, to cut off relations with them, and the calls for regime change will begin soon.

You know, despite the fact we use Turkish bases and airspace as integral parts of our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Wingers will DEMAND!!!11! that we threaten them as much as possible because they are hiding Al Qaeda and Nazi eugenics clones and make cheese taste funny and the bastards wrote the last episode of Lost.

So thanks to Israel not being able to control their urge for self-fulfilling martyrdom ("The entire world is against us anyway, so let's drive the entire world against us!")  our media is now going after a critical ally in the Middle East that is vital to any chance of success we have in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Of course, maybe that's the plan.  They throw Turkey under the bus and then yell at Obama for "losing the war" when they tell us to go intercourse ourselves.

And so it goes.