{"id":12033,"date":"2019-10-28T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12033"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:27:06","slug":"our-untenable-alliance-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-untenable-alliance-with-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Untenable Alliance with Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/  National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Data on these weapons is classified, but at their maximum yield each is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to&nbsp;<em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a \u201cDr. Strangelove\u201d scenario: No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the tarmac, load them on planes and fly them out safely over Turkish objections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey in the past has threatened to go nuclear itself should the U.S. ever dare to transfer the lethal arsenal. Apparently, Turkey\u2019s theory is that possession of bombs in one\u2019s territory is nine-tenths of the law of nuclear weapons ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, which led to a U.S. arms embargo, Turkey shut down all U.S. operations at Incirlik. American forces were expelled for three years \u2014 until Washington caved and resumed arms supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/10\/untenable-alliance-is-no-turkish-delight\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Data on these weapons is classified, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-385","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1553,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-wannabe-ottomans\/","url_meta":{"origin":12033,"position":0},"title":"The New Wannabe Ottomans","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A\u00a0Turkish Islamic group \u2014 the \"Humanitarian Relief Foundation,\" often associated by Western intelligence agencies with terrorist sponsorship \u2014 orchestrated the recent Gaza flotilla. 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