Deteriorated relations between two longtime allies over Turkish refusal to give access to U.S. troops for an invasion of northern Iraq resulted recently in top U.S. and Turkish military officers engaging in a telephone shouting match. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, raised his voice and made clear his outrage during a conversation with Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, chief of Turkey's general staff. Ozkok replied in kind and then rudely hung up.
International military shouting contest? I guess I was wrong to think that only US politicians where politically handicapped |