Re: Most Europeans are opposed to Turkey's admission to the EU.
Granted, but most Europeans are unwilling to wage wars and crusades against Arab/Muslim countries all the same. Even Italians, Britons, Spaniards, Poles,... --whose governments sent troops to Iraq-- have demonstrated against the Iraq war and against their countries' alliance with the US in waging it. Europeans are resentful of Arab, African, Turkish immigration and willing to fix the "immigration problem" at home, but not abroad... What European public opinion failed to grasp about Turkey's EU bid is the impact it will have on future wars. Harnessing Turkey to the European Union will make it all the more difficult for Judeofascists to draw Europe into their Middle East crusades.
Many European leaders keep bragging about the EU as the best, time-tested guarantee against future wars as if France, Germany, Britain, Italy,... could conceivably fight each other (militarily) in the foreseeable future. They simply miss the fact that European powers went to war over their empires --colonial empires, that is. Times have changed, as has geopolitics. Today's and future wars are much more likely to break out over the Israeli issue, Iran, Central Asia, and the Judeo-Christian-Muslim squall-line. European leaders ought to focus on THESE possible wars and the best course of action to defuse them, NOT on preventing, and bracing for, bygone world wars between European powers.
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