Desperate Erdogan wondering if he's next

Here's something worth reading.

Note the tinge of desperation as Erdogan wanly champions the imaginary obligations of the international community to intercede with the generals in Egypt and prevent the wholesale slaughter of the Morsi supporters who have been holding peaceful sit-ins in the streets.

Don't expect Hurriyet to spell out the irony of Erdogan's appeal to international law after being neck deep in fomenting the Syrian crisis for the past three years.

Truth is, the big boys have decided that the Muslim Brotherhood is expendable. That's evident by what has happened with the regime change in Qatar and the coup in Egypt. This anti-MB impetus also helps sideline Hamas while the US puts on the latest iteration of the Middle East Peace charade.

The supposed conversations that Erdogan has been having with his counterparts among the UN Security Council must have been awkward in the extreme.

It seems that Erdogan is the last to know that the world has turned a page, and that he is being hung out to dry.

True, he has clapped most of his US-trained high command into prison, but that may not be enough.

The US-sponsored "democracy activists" remain thick on the ground.

Turk PM Erdogan raises bar in chutzpah sweepstakes

Politicians around the world must be dizzy with envy after witnessing this performance.

After two years of funneling weapons and fighters into Syria to bring about the collapse of the Assad government, Erdogan has remade himself as a champion of Syrian sovereignty!

Yes indeed! "History will not forgive Israel" for that strike into Syria last week.

A provocation... act of war... flouting international law...

All true enough, but what does he think Turkey has been doing these past two years?

Truly a new gold standard for hypocrisy.

NATO's weakest link; Turkey

Not that there's a shortage of "weak links" in NATO.

How did outfits like Albania and Croatia even get into the bully club?

But the weakest link we should be most concerned about is Turkey. We predicted some time ago that the Turks would be left holding the bag when things went wrong in the Syria intervention that Erdogan was strong-armed into supporting, and there are stories floating around this week that suggest his NATO allies are preparing to wash their hands of him.

A number of regional news outlets reported this week that two major US Navy battle groups have pulled out of the neighborhood, namely the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the Iwo Jima Amphibious Assault Group. This comes at a time when Erdogan was hoping for more support, not less.

It's true that this is happening at the same time as NATO is officially giving the Turks a vote of confidence by sending Patriot missile batteries to the country. But note the fine print; even though NATO allies Germany and the USA are sending Patriots to NATO ally Turkey, it will be American troops manning the missile batteries, thank you very much.

Some allies are more equal than others.

As for Syria, official US policy for the moment seems to be let it burn and see what's left when it's over.

On the one hand, the carefully fomented "revolution" has gone wildly out of the control of the American paymasters.

On the other, this is not entirely a bad thing for the Nations of Virtue.

What better launch pad for an Iran war than a Syria in ruins, with 100,000 hardened al Qaeda fighters prepared to march to Tehran and do America's dirty work?

Alas, Turkey will disintegrate long before Iran does.

Pot-addled blogger predicts mainstream media's demonization of Turkey

Yes, while I blush to admit it, I knew Erdogan was going to be the odd man out, and I said so at least six weeks ago.

Here's the Chicago Sun-Times fulminating about how Erdogan has stabbed the Nations of Virtue in the back with his endorsement of Hamas in Gaza.

Nevermind how the Nations of Virtue have stabbed Erdogan in the back by letting him take the heat for their failed Syria adventure.

Arming and housing and financing the Syria "rebels" wasn't an idea that sprung fully-formed from the minds of Erdogan and his cabinet. Assad was for many years a trusted ally of the Turkish state. You can bet it took a lot of arm-twisting and cajoling to get the Turks to see the error of their ways.

But now that it has become overwhelmingly obvious that Assad isn't following the NATO script, we can blame our failure on Erdogan?

And of course we want to castigate the Erdogan regime for not falling into line with the usual "Israel has the right to defend itself" red herring that has the Nations of Virtue desperately covering their virtuous parts this past week.

Once you wrap your mind around the concept that the Guardian put out this week, namely that the Palestinians have that right too, the claim on virtue that has traditionally been claimed by the Nations of Virtue begins to look a bit grubby.

Expect this Chicago Sun-Times salvo to be just the opening shot in a barrage of dark stories designed to diminish Turkey and the Erdogan government.

If you step back a pace or two and ponder the big picture for a few moments, you will realize that Erdogan is on the right side of history and it is the Nations of Virtue who are in the dark.

Assad home free as rebels turn on rebels

Things aren't going that great in the great Syrian uprising.

Fanning the embers of nascent resentment of the Assad regime, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with the connivance of Erdogan and the blessing of the Pentagon, flooded the country with weapons and foreign jihadists.

If you remember the script from a year and a half ago, Assad's time was to be measured in days, maybe weeks...

Yet here we are.

Luckily for the people of Syria, the ultimate masterminds of this revolution are stepping out of the shadows and will proclaim their true intentions at the Doha meetings this week.

Hillary has already spilled the beans. Can't be having all those Islamist radicals running roughshod over our paid mercenary revolutionaries in Syria.

Enough is enough.