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It’s weird. I just can’t get myself worked up over Pakistan. Probably because I think it’s a lost cause. Turkey, on the other hand, just depresses me, mostly because I missed an Instapundit link to something that I could have used, but here’s a replacement (if blogging’s been slow, besides the obvious reason, this a-hole Movable Type 4.01 is really pissing me off and it’s taking ages to do even the smallest thing so that’s why).

The Times - Danger Signs
Turkey, a friend and ally, is becoming perilously estranged from the West

With the US, careful diplomacy on both sides had begun to mend fences broken by Turkey’s refusal to allow its territory to be used in the invasion of Iraq. But much of that quiet work has been undone by an appallingly timed congressional push, dictated more by Democratic concern to garner support from rich Armenian-Americans than by the demands of historical justice, to declare the Turkish empire’s mass deportation and slaughter of Armenians in 1915 an act of genocide. Much unnecessary damage has been done by the inept Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

So there you are. The Democrats were going to come and save us from the Iraq war and set everything to rights, building allies and blooming peace in the Middle East, and all they do is piss off another of our few remaining allies and put us closer to a real WWIII.