Danish Prime Minster to head NATO?

I was reading your 1st post & I thought that you were a wise person...then I could't finish it when you said:

"mass slaughter of Muslims in Iraq by Al Qaeda"!!!

Actually it was the americans who slughtered masses of Muslim Iraqis.

And if Al-Qaeda exists in Iraq, then it only existed after the American invasion of Iraq.

If america does not want Al-Qaeda to exist in Iraq, then they will make sure that it doesn't. But then again, part of the American existance in Iraq, depends on the existance of Al-Qaeda!

I am sure you know these facts, but failing to mention them, and intentionally twisting the facts, makes you just another westerner who sucks the wealths of these lands, then bites the hand that feeds him.

hi again,im Turkish

and i dont wanna join EU

and Turkey doesnt want to and try to join EU neither,cuz EU is becoming weak and so on...

Only the current goverment(AKP)wants to join EU.

If you ask people in Turkey's streets

"Do you wanna join EU?"

and they answer,

"'Who wants to join EU?"

:D

hello,

Turkey's current goverment is belong to USA and following their orders.maybe,thats why we cant play active role in the main conflict zones...and,thats why i hate the current goverment

The Danish PM would be a great Choice for NATO, no doubt about that. Why should the Rest of the World care about who is the top NATO guy ??

It is a Organization for Protection of Europe and North Atlantic(including Canada and the USA). There have been voices over the years to kick Turkey out of the organization anyway. Turkey also desperately tries to get into EU, but is stopped by Certain EU Countries.

I agree with Truthfulvisitor that it is the Kurdish "problem" that lies behind it all. The Danes and the other Scandinavian Countries have been supporting the Kurds for years(in the same way they have supported the Palestinians and the Lebanese against Istrael.

Agree with you. NATO should be history. Apart from the perks, another reason for NATOS existence is to ensure that the USA has a presence in key strategic areas.

Disrespected? Why? Or more to the point, what relevance has "respect" or "reputation" got to a military alliance?

I think if Nato came cracking its military knuckles outside your door you would respect it PDQ, which is possibly more than can be said for, for example, the Peninsula Shield military alliance (if anybody knows what that is).

Nato's problem is that it doesn't really have a function any longer, but it wants to remain in existence for the sake of all those lovely, lucrative sinecures for aged politicians, and for the extra star (and pay) the generals can pick up.

Guess another way of rewarding a liberal/exterimist..

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I was more thinking Vasquez that NATO is already pretty disprespected on a world scale, and that electing the Danish PM wouldn't help.

Gypsy for f** sake

Know the story before you speak. The turks are angry for 3 reasons:

He spoke against Turkey EU membership.

He said to the Muslim world that he can't as a PM decide what a newspaper print - Lesson to the newspapers and rulers here in the dark part of the world with all the censorship.

They have a local election at the moment so they want to appear strong and very "muslim" before the polls close.

Why would it be a bad thing - if you say that the countries here in Middle East won't meet with him, then I think you underestimate the hypocrisy here.

But ok if you support at Chamberlain appeasement because you don't think free speech is important then go on...

- I took the blue pill and found myself alive in Qatar - wish I had taken the red and stayed in Europe

I always wonder about Turkey..

They have the second largest armed forces in NATO, yet don't really seem to play a very active role in the main conflict zones..

It looks like Turkey is trying to do everything possible not to become a member of the EU. Appreciate it, anyway.

Not giving the job to the Danish PM because he didn't object to the cartoon episode is like cancelling your wedding cause of a splinter.

I'm sure that the muslim world wouldn't even have noticed if it wasn't for Turkey raising the issue to promote their own agenda.

I'm sure most of the Muslims wouldn't know the Danish PM even if they saw him in the street.

More importantly, NATO doesn't give a toss about what the Muslims think or feel.

Regardless of the reasons why the Danish boycott happened, the fact is that it did, and a great portion of the Muslim world dislikes the Danish Prime Minister, which is why it might not be wise to make him the head of NATO.

In my view, the whole cartoon episode was a piece of cynical manipulation by the Islamic religious establishment.

Consider this: the row surfaced months after the initial publication of the cartoons, just at the time when there was a rising tide of outrage in the Muslim world over the ongoing mass slaughter of Muslims in Iraq by Al Qaeda. Suddenly, there is this manufactured anger against the Danes and the focus switches away from Al Qaeda.

I really can't give any credence to the supposed determination of the Mullahs to "defend" their prophet, since they apparently couldn't care less about the quite deliberate effort to destroy his reputation in every possible way by the book Prophet of Doom, published in the US and given away on the Internet. When I had a Muslim colleague ask the organisers of the Danish boycott why they weren't launching a boycott against the US over this outrageous and blasphemous book, the reply was "The Danish wall is easier to jump over". In other words, it wasn't about defending the Prophet's reputation at all, it was about stirring up outrage and picking an easy Western target. To me, that would fit exactly with trying to take the heat off Al Qaeda. If they were really determined to defend the Prophet against insults they would have launched a much bigger campaign against "Prophet of Doom", where all the insults and blasphemy are 100% deliberate (unlike the cartoons).

Of courae, the mullahs did succeed in making a huge number of people very, very angry indeed, to the extent of people dying as a result of the protests. But it was pure manipulation, switched on and off like a tap (however sincere the feelings of those caught up in it were).

I don't see why a Western military alliance should let its decision-making be affected by the fall-out from the political activities of eastern religious leaders.

I believe I heard that Turkey is also cross that Denmark allows a pro-Kurdish radio station to operate. MOre like they are using the cartoon issue as a way of garnering support when they actually have their own agenda regarding Denmark.

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Of course not, brit. I just had a funny experience when everybody in Qatar boycotted the Danish products, I was forced to drive behind a Maersk trailer all the way through C-Ring road. I couldn't help to cry from laughter.

I doubt whether there'll be a major outcry even he if was chosen..

At the end of the day, the Big Dogs are the ones that decide.. Everyone else just falls into line..

Maersk Oil is still operating in Qatar. What a blow for "Muslims". Ha ha ha.

The Scandanavians are preety adept at politicking and neutrality.

I do think that he would cause problems though. Having said that, old Bankeeeeeeeee doesn't exactly set the forums alight does he ?

it's such a ridiculous situation...it puts muslims across as petty and spiteful. yes one shouhld always respect his and other's religions and all that but this is taking it way too far...the whole response to the issue was taking it way too far.

but rather too serious....

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Well the fall out from that competition was rather large.

I can't believe that a competition from the funny pages of some Danish newspaper years ago is playing into international politics now...

Personally I wouldn't think this is a smart idea on NATO's part (and not just cause a Canadian is running against him. :P)