What does it mean for democracy when Islam(ist) parties win vote after vote
State Dept fiddles as Turkey votes for more Islamist party AGAIN
GERTZ - The State Department has completely misunderstood the overwhelming victory of Turkey's pro-Islamic party in national elections.
State regards the win of the Justice and Development Party as an expression of a democratic Islam in Turkey and a model for other Muslim states. As U.S. diplomats see it, the election of an Islamist government in Turkey makes perfect sense even if the country goes jihad.
The U.S. intelligence community has rejected the Islam Ubber Alles approach. The community has warned that Turkey was quickly moving away from the Western fold.
A poll by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center shows the intelligence community to be correct. The poll reveals overwhelming anti-Americanism in Turkey, with 77 percent of Turks regarding the United States as a potential military threat to their country. Sixty four percent said the United States posed the greatest threat to their country.
The poll marked a significant increase in anti-Americanism in Turkey. In 2005, 66 percent of Turkey regarded the United States as a potential threat to Ankara.What this means is that the new Justice and Development government in Turkey will find it more difficult to work with the United States, particularly in Iraq. The U.S. intelligence community assert that Turkey fears Washington's alliance with the Kurds in northern Iraq and the U.S. failure to quell the Kurdish Workers Party, which has been attacking Turkey.
The Pew poll showed Turkish society as volatile. While the military was said to be the most popular institution, with 85 percent, only 26 percent said they were satisfied with their lives. The assessment: Turkey could confront a major crisis that will test its commitment to NATO and the West.
It means there is nothing wrong with democracy. This is all a REAL reflection of the fact that another very disparate culture and religion has very different needs and wants, and that a significant proportion if not outright and or LARGE majority find that the relationship with the people of the United States, and by extension the west, is one of enmity.
I don't understand why this is not yet clear to everyone at State, at the CIA, and in the executive and legislative branches.
Poll after poll, and vote after vote shows this to be objective fact.
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