{"id":56406,"date":"2014-11-13T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56406"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:10:14","slug":"sailors-roughed-up-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56406","title":{"rendered":"Sailors roughed up in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry sends us a link to CBS News<\/a> which reports that US sailors were attacked by Turkish citizens while they were on shore leave in Istanbul;<\/p>\n

“Soldiers from the occupying country think they can walk around freely in Eminonu,” association spokesman Melik Dibek said, referring to the neighborhood where the incident occurred. “It’s obvious why they’ve anchored here -because of their ambitions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. American imperialism is the reason why the Middle East has turned into a chamber of fire.”<\/p>\n

The servicemen, who were not in uniform, were from the USS Ross, a guided-missile destroyer docked nearby, according to Capt. Greg Hicks, a spokesman for the U.S. European Command. He said they were not hurt and were safely back aboard the ship, but that shore leave for its sailors was canceled for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara condemned the attack on Twitter and said it had no doubt that most Turks would reject such an action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, our imperialism and ambitions in the Black Sea. The US Embassy statement must have come from someone who has been sleeping the last few decades. The Turks, who have the most to lose in a successful Islamic Caliphate in the region, have hardly lifted a finger to beat back the Islamic State. In fact, they used the war as an excuse to bomb the Kurds a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

And in the war against Saddam Hussein, they wouldn’t let move the 4th Division through their country in that endeavor. That’s their right, certainly, but they also wouldn’t let US war planes use our bases there to attack ISIS for quite some time. Despite the billions of dollars that we’ve poured into their military. That should probably end abruptly.<\/p>\n