What's up with the Turks?

Once Israel's best friend in the region, Turkey, now experiencing a resurgence of Islam under the stewardship of its odious Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is fast becoming another threat. Mark Steyn writes at NRO:

Foreign policy “realists,” back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of “stability”: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should learn to live with Mubarak and the mullahs and the House of Saud, etc. You can see the appeal of “stability” to your big-time geopolitical analyst: You don’t have to update your Rolodex too often, never mind rethink your assumptions. “Stability” is a fancy term to upgrade inertia and complacency into strategy. No wonder the fetishization of stability is one of the most stable features of foreign-policy analysis.

Unfortunately, back in what passes for the real world, there is no stability. History is always on the march, and, if it’s not moving in your direction, it’s generally moving in the other fellow’s. Take this “humanitarian” “aid” flotilla. Much of what went on — the dissembling of the Palestinian propagandists, the hysteria of the U.N. and the Euro-ninnies — was just business as usual. But what was most striking was the behavior of the Turks. In the wake of the Israeli raid, Ankara promised to provide Turkish naval protection for the next “aid” convoy to Gaza. This would be, in effect, an act of war — more to the point, an act of war by a NATO member against the State of Israel.

Do read the whole thing.

Meanwhile, back here in the states, two New Jersey men with terrorist ties were arrested at JFK Airport , as they prepared to board a plane for Egypt. Their ultimate destination was Somalia, probably one of that country's terrorist training camps.

Good catch. Maybe the president will start to figure out that, in spite of the fact that he's on board with the whole realpolitik shtick that animates liberal statesmanship, our enemies still want to destroy us.