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Claire Berlinski @ClaireBerlinski
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Congratulations! You also wrote a good article here: foreignpolicy.com/comments_view/…. I don't get the weird headline, but I know you didn't write it.
I also don't get the first sentence. (When was it a model ally? Apart from in our fantasies.) But apart from that, it's a good overview of the situation. And it rightly stresses that the deep issue is the estrangement of the Turkish public--
and to a lesser extent the US public, though I don't think the US public thinks about it much. And you also rightly say that this estrangement is not insane. I hadn't realized that Pence's former Chief of Staff is now lobbying for the Gülenists.
Lobbyists lobby, and that's their job; they do so for any number of disagreeable clients, but it's dismaying to think someone with that much access to the VP is going to be lobbying for a group that should arouse such deep suspicions in DC.
It's the way terrible policy gets made. city-journal.org/html/turkey%E2… I very much doubt Pence knows enough about Turkey to appreciate this. He's exactly the kind of mark they love.
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