Last Meal, Istanbul!

You can't come to Turkey and not eat donner or what they refer to as "meat on a stick" back in New York. But don't call it that here.

Destination Pamukkle!

Pamukkle, Turkey is the home to the magnificent Hieropolis, the Greco-Roman civilization that flourished in these parts for a millennia or more. They even had running water and communal toilets. You know, all the pleasures of home. Too bad the life expectancy was somewhere around 30 but you can't have it all. The hike up to the mountain top is covered wet pummus rock that comes from the hot springs, and is at times perilous. That is, if you're like me with flat feet, three screws in one foot, and in possession of an odd sense of balance.

Destination Konya

Taking you with me on the drive over the Turkish plains to the city of Konya, a most sacred place for Muslims, especially this time of year during Ramadan. There's a military airbase housed here so while I'm stuck inside my hotel room trying to make a deadline I'm listening to some military jets flying overhead. I can only assume the pilots are on high alert considering the proximity of the war in Ukraine and ongoing conflict in nearby Syria.

World Wars a Sad Democratic Legacy

Say what you want about conservatives, but up to and including now, it has traditionally been a liberal Democratic President who's presided over the United States while the planet became engulfed in a World War.

Woodrow Wilson, a far left Democrat, refused to get involved in the First World War until it was obvious that Germany's unrestricted use of submarine warfare would starve Western Europe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, also a Socialist Democrat, stood by idly during the Spanish Civil War while Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy murdered thousands of Spanish innocents. He still refused to fight Fascism when the Second World War broke out, and he knew full well that Jews were being relocated to concentration "death" camps. Only when America's mainland was struck in 1941 did he have no choice but to declare war on the Axis powers.

Now we have Barack Obama, a leftist Democrat, who has forcibly made the US withdraw from its responsibilities on the world stage over his own political agenda--a dangerous policy that has directly resulted in thousands of Christians being slaughtered overseas.

Unlike the previous two aforementioned Presidents, he's gone a step farther than merely avoiding war with an obvious enemy like Radical Islam. He has signed treaty-like agreements with our enemy, Iran and taken great pains to empty out the GITMO detention center in Cuba. He's also made decisions of staggering ineptitude, like trading several major Al Qaeda players for a treasonous Bowe Bergdhal.

A Russian jet fighter was shot down over Turkey earlier today. Some are already saying that the incident is a part of Putin's overall strategy to see the world engulfed in a World War in which the Russian leader feels confident he can crush an ineffectual NATO and at the same time, rebuild the Soviet empire.

Why does NATO stand the chance of being ineffectual?

Because Barack Obama is ineffectual and the USA needs to lead NATO. 

The world security slope is indeed slippery. And the world is currently sliding rapidly down into a Third World War which presents the very real possibility of being fought with nuclear weapons.

Mr. President, wake up and be a leader before it's way too late. 

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