The Pentagon Princes and the other Ben Rhodes wannabees in the Biden junta might consider how difficult it has been to avoid blue on blue incidents in Afghanistan (local military killing American embeds) for example before they “purge” or cleanse the services. Workplace violence (Hassan of Ft. Hood (racist)) could get commonplace. Naval officers could fall off the boat …, generals could fall out of copters or get run over by ….
Stuff happens.

And your point is what? Your feelings hurt so you wish to intimidate someone for pointing out your specious opinion?

Looks pretty small and petty, millie.

Only one person could be this obtuse.

L. Paul Bremer, take a bow.

And some Muslims still claim Spain and parts of France. So what some Turks call non-Turkey counts for what? Otay, millie.

I had tangles with Mr. Goldman 11 years ago, when he was peddling panic porn blogging at First Things. Since we haven’t replicated the Great Depression at any time in the intervening years, I tend to ignore him.

Greater Istanbul spans the Bosporus. Istanbul aside, none of Turkey’s 60 largest cities are to be found in the European portion of Turkey. Turkey’s 3d largest city is Izmir on the Aegean coast. Very peculiar to refer to Thrace when it has just a couple of cities of modest population (< 200,000).

But nitpick away about the Muh Balkans and the nomenclature of defunct Ottoman Province Names.

Your whole thesis is that the Justice and Development Party prospers by mobilizing fecund peasants. The demographic weight of the peasantry has declined rapidly since he took office. That aside, have a gander at the election results in June 2015. Erdogan’s party wins a plurality in the provinces encompassing Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Gaziantep, and Konya. The Kemalists win a plurality around Izmir, and Bursa.

When your whole thesis is dubious, it’s not a ‘nitpick’.