Sorry but wtf is Turkey to the USA? Would any one in the US even notice if tomorrow all diplomatic ties were cut?
I think Turky is doing great things economically, industrially and have always thought its a great place but your not Saudi or China.
The worst thing anyone can do for the Palestinians is when Isreal is lossing support is start a shooting war and give Israel the chance to be the victim of Muslim agression.
Never thought i would suggest it but the army needs to put dogman back in his box to cool off.
It is obvious then that you have no idea about the geo-strategic reality of Turkey. There is a reason that Turkey is considered the crossroads of civilizations, where West meets East & hosts one of the most important merchant channels in the world.
In history empires have waged war to claim Istanbul & Asia Minor and at least 3 empires have made Istanbul their capitol in the past because of it's location, the Russians have in the past waged constant campaigns of conquest to take Istanbul from the Ottomans.
The USA minus the goons in congress knows just how important Turkey is, Turkey today is seen as the Muslim equivalent of the USA, it is a regional hegemony where no other power except Turkish power reigns, the land army of Turkey is larger then Russia and it provides military and economic aid to at least 16 nations, guarantees Macedonian and Azerbaijan independence, is involved in rebuilding Russia's post USSR economy by actively investing in it & was actively working to find a permanent peace between Palestinians and Israel, the US after Iraq and Afghanistan is viewed unfavorably in the region and actively today works closely with it's key and only Muslim majority ally in an attempt to bring peace into the region.
So the question you should ask is not
WTF is Turkey to America but
just how much America stands to lose if they dismiss the Turks.
Turkey is heavily integrated into NATO and whenever the need for NATO involvement is deemed necessary in foreign conflicts Turkey is expected to do the rebuilding & promote the name of the Western alliance this is especially true in conflicts that involve Muslim majorities & the fact is if America loses Turkey then NATO then loses credibility to the some 1.5 billion Muslims of this world, this is especially true today given that most Muslims around the world look to Turkey to resolve the Palestinian-Israel conflict.
The US never trusted Russia even after the communist land based superpower broke apart and the USA is worried about a possible future Russian re-emergence and it expects Turkey as a NATO key ally to counterattack as the only other major land power other then the US itself leading the charge should hostilities in the future between NATO and Russia break out.
Turkey is despite what propaganda may tell you is the USA closest ally, we have been with the yanks in every conflict backing them in every conflict and 5000 Turks in Korea have saved the US 2nd division from destruction by stopping over 30,000 Chinese & North Korean troops dead in their tracks.
You should educate yourself further do a simple Google search for "Superpower Turkey" and have a look at what George Friedman of STRATFOR states about Turkey (ignore his future predictions of war but everything else he has claimed is coming to pass).
