topics.nytimes.com - 10/23/2009
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Updated August 4, 2009 Anders Fogh Rasmussen is NATO 's secretary general. Before taking office in August 2009, Mr. Rasmussen was Denmark's center-right prime minister for eight years. He is the highest-ranking official to become NATO's secretary general. Mr. Rasmussen, 56, assumes office as ...
legalinsurrection.blogspot.com - 10/18/2009
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legalinsurrection.blogspot.com —
On January 31, 2009, I wrote that Turkey
Looking Like The Next Iran : My prediction: Turkey...
is the next Iran, unless Obama stops blaming the U.S. for Islamist aggression and gives support to Turkey's secular institutions, including the Turkish army. ...
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Turkey is Lost to Islamists
poliblogger.com - 10/19/2009
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poliblogger.com —
Via Memeorandum yesterday, I noted an odd piece
by Caroline Glick at Real Clear Politics entitled “...
How Turkey Was Lost to the West ” wherein she claims that “this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the ...
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Turkey “Lost to the West”?
danielpipes.org - 10/27/2009
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danielpipes.org —
"There is no doubt he is our friend,"
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's...
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These
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Turkey: An Ally No More
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NATO Agrees - Someone Else Needs To Send More Troops To Afghanistan
JustOneMinute —
... , increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments to commit more military and civilian resources to the mission. ... “What we did today was to discuss General McChrystal’s overall assessment, his overall approach, and I have noted a broad support from all ministers of this overall counterinsurgency approach,” said NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen . Although the broad acceptance by NATO defense ministers of General McChrystal’s strategic review included no decision on new troops, it was another in a series of judgments that success ...
Is the Die Already Cast on Obama's Afghanistan Decision?
The New Republic blogs —
... on the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, which featured a surprise appearance by General McChrystal: What we did today was to discuss General McChrystal s overall assessment, his overall approach, and I have noted a broad support from all ministers of this overall counterinsurgency approach, said NATO s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen . Although the broad acceptance by NATO defense ministers of General McChrystal s strategic review included no decision on new troops, it was another in a series of judgments that success there cannot be achieved by a ...
Great, Then I'll Pledge Another Thousand
JustOneMinute —
... that NATO has risen to the challenge on Afghanistan: BRUSSELS — Responding to American entreaties for more soldiers in Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the ...
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