Turkey for the EU?

by **Renard** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:18 pm

Both Penta and Tarkan have been using the irony lately.

Now that's ironic.

by **Buzzsaw** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:41 pm

I've been using irony on this board since you were just cutting your teeth learning to read the children's edition of the Guardain. Seriously, I've read some pretty whacky things you've posted before, so it raised an eyebrow considering your unpaid career as an America-hater.

by **Penta** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:30 pm

it raised an eyebrow considering your unpaid career as an America-hater

I was drawing attention to the fact that I do not automatically oppose anything the US proposes, regardless of other considerations, as you and many others seem to think.

by **Sri Lanky** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:42 pm

It is absolutely imperative that Turkey joins the EU. It will show the boneheads who want a separate Islamic Caliphate that Islam can be integrated within the developed world....successfully.

by **El Presidente** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:37 am

I don't understand. I thought Austria-Hungary and Turkey were allies??????????

by **el3so** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:22 am

Penta wrote: We accepted poor, backward and recently fascist countries Spain, Greece and Portugal, and they have been transformed: the same thing can happen to Turkey.

Ah yes, how could I forget the Mediterranean Economic Hub...

Penta wrote: Austria's threat to use its veto has looked more like being simply anti-swarthy people and anti-Muslim than anything else, which I have to say is par for the course for Austria.

I don't particularily like the Austrians either. But this to me isn't about people, it is about economy.
I honestly think we have already absorbed more than our share of countries depending on agriculture and with large populations.

by **Arctic** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:42 am

Buzzsaw wrote:

so it raised an eyebrow considering your unpaid career as an America-hater.

Wait, Goddamnit... you mean you can get paid for this? Hot dang!! Where do I submit my CV?!

by **el3so** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:47 am

Sri Lanky wrote:It will show the boneheads who want a separate Islamic Caliphate that Islam can be integrated within the developed world... successfully.

Think the military holds many more strings (of power, not the thong kind) in Turkey than the clergy.

Nevertheless, EU is/was originally intended to be a community of monetary, rather than moral, values. Objections re: human rights are IMO more about window-dressing.
The detention and "transferral" of Kurd leader Öcalan is a good example about us conveniently looking the other way.

by **lightstalker** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:49 am

El Presidente wrote:I don't understand. I thought Austria-Hungary and Turkey were allies??????????

The Austrians are allies with the Croats.Forget Turkey
the sooner we let Croatia in the sooner europe can establish a quasi-fascist empire.

by **Mikethehack** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:13 am

Why hasn't anyone suggested letting Israel join the EU?

by **seektravelinfo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:27 am

Mikethehack wrote:Why hasn't anyone suggested letting Israel join the EU?

Yes. Please.
Israel is the single largest beneficiary of US overseas monetary aid, isn't it?

by **coldharvest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:51 pm

Why hasn't anyone suggested letting Israel join the EU

They already compete in the Eurovision Song Contest.
They won with a transexual.

by **Captain_Solo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:45 pm

Mikethehack wrote:Why hasn't anyone suggested letting Israel join the EU?

Because the Elders of Zion already control Europe...(ZOG anyone?)

by **Bobby Sands** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:28 pm

Mikethehack wrote:Why hasn't anyone suggested letting Israel join the EU?

The same reason they didn't give the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany a portion of Germany as a Jewish state.

by **Qwazy Wabbit** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:19 pm

I thought Israel was already part of the United States.

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