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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Washington, Ankara and tough love-The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Washington, Ankara and tough love

By Tulin Daloglu
November 8, 2005

The war in Afghanistan has barely registered in news coverage for a while; the focus on U.S. foreign policy is all about Iraq. And when there is a focus on Turkey's relationship with the United States, that seems to be all about Iraq as well. However, 'I think the difference of how we view Turkey and France in Afghanistan and how we view them in their participation in Iraq -- I think it is not a French or Turkish problem,' said Col. David Lamm, former chief of staff of the Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan. 'It is an American problem. Because we add up in great sum Iraq as the global war on terror where in fact Iraq is just another piece of the global war on terror.' "

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