From the Daily Caller but they could have bitten the hook at a satire site. If not, it's a good reason to make Islam illegal in all civilized countries.
[DAILYCALLER] President B.O.s best friend in Turkey is surrounding himself with guards dressed like the 15th century Turkish soldiers who captured Byzantium, the Roman Empires last capital city.
The garish display of imperial grandiosity was staged Jan. 12 by President Tayyip Erdogan, the recently re-elected president of Turkey, as he welcomed Arab strongman the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
to Turkeys new imperial palace.
Erdogan descended a staircase toward cameras, while flanked by guards dressed in military costumes of the Turkish military, dating back to 1299.
Erdogans display spotlighted the unbridgeable gap between his ethnic ambitions and Obamas early hopes of working with Turkey to suppress the various Islamic and ethnic wars in the Middle East.
Back in January 2012, Obama described Erdogan as one of his best five friends among foreign leaders. The bonds of trust that Ive been able to forge with a whole range of leaders is precisely, or is a big part of, what has allowed us to execute effective diplomacy, Obama told Time magazine. |