Turkey's membership in NATO provides Islamists with veto power over any proposed action.
And with Turkey's closer ties to the Iranian Islamist regime, they for certain would block any proposed military action on the part of NATO to destroy or at least set back Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Before NATO can undertake any major action it must have 100% unanimous consent from all of it's members.
There are 28 member nations of NATO. Turkey was the only one to oppose the nomination of former Danish PM Anders Fogh Rassmussen for the job of Secretary General of NATO.
They were angered over Rassmussen's earlier defense of free-speech in regards to a cartoon of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper. Islamists from around the world had urged Turkey to block the nomination.
Then Obama stepped in. The result was that Turkey was guaranteed that one of Rassmussen's deputys would be a Turk, Turkish commanders would be present at the NATO alliance command. In addition, Rassmussen bowed the knee and issued an apology for the cartoons.
Just this past Monday a meeting was held in DC of the NATO Strategic Concept Experts Group charged with formulating a strategic mission for NATO over the next 10 years.
Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright heads up the group of "experts" tasked with advising for a new strategic concept for NATO.
[Certainly doesn't inspire confidence]
She was appointed by Anders Fogh Rassmussen last August '09 to "chair" the so-called group of "experts". Exactly how did that come about?
Don't believe Rassmussen thought it up himself. Someone must have "suggested" or strongly "advised" Rassmussen to appoint Albright.
In addition, two other "experts" in the group include advisors from the Albright Stonebridge Group: Fariba Yassaee and James O'brien.
The Albright Stonebridge Group is the result of a merger between Stonebridge International, co-founded by Sandy Berger, and the Albright Group.
Albright Stonebridge is headed up by Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger.
Samuel [Sandy] Berger:- theft of top secret documents from the National Archives, documents relating to the Clinton Administration's handling of terrorism.
The Vice-Cair of this group of "experts" is Jeroen Van Der Veer, an executive with years as the head Shell Oil companys.
Not exactly foreign policy or military experience.
In reading through this group of experts recommendations, while the real and dangerous threat of Iran's ballistic missiles were made reference to, there was no recommendation on "preventing" Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. That will require military option. Again, Islam now has veto-power over NATO.
Read the NATO group of "experts" recommendations here.
The rest of the NATO group of "experts":
Chair
- The Honourable Madeleine K. Albright (United States)
Vice-Chair
- Mr Jeroen van der Veer (The Netherlands)
Members of the Group
- Ambassador Giancarlo Aragona (Italy)
- Ambassador Marie Gervais-Vidricaire (Canada)
- The Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP (United Kingdom) (until 24 March 2010)
- Ambassador Ümit Pamir (Turkey)
- Ambassador Fernando Perpiñá-Robert Peyra (Spain)
- Ambassador Dr Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz (Germany)
- Mr. Bruno Racine (France)
- Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland)
- Ambassador Aivis Ronis (Latvia) (until 5 May 2010)
- Ambassador Yannis-Alexis Zepos (Greece)
Advisers to the Group of Experts
Civilian Advisers
- Dr. Ronald Asmus, Executive Director, Transatlantic Centre of the German Marshall Fund, Brussels
- Dr. Hans Binnendijk, Vice President for Research and Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington
- Dr. Stephen Flanagan, Senior Vice President and Kissinger Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
- Mr. Camille Grand, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, Paris
- Dr. Karl Heinz-Kamp, Director, Research Division, NATO Defense College, Rome
- Mr. James O’Brien, Principal, Albright Stonebridge Group.
- Mr. Thomas Valasek, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London
- Mr. Max Valstar, assistant to the Vice-Chair
- Ms. Fariba Yassaee, Vice President, Albright Stonebridge Group
Policy Planning Unit, NATO International Staff
- Dr. Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning Unit
- Mr. Antonio Ortiz, Policy Adviser
- LtCol Emmanuel Charpy, Policy Adviser
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