"An early look at US presidential hopefuls
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Gore (if he runs) and McCain appear to be best picks for Turkey
ÜMİT ENGİNSOY
WASHINGTON - Turkish Daily News
In the run-up to the U.S. presidential election in 2000, many analysts here viewed Republican President George W. Bush as a better choice than Democrat Al Gore from a standpoint of potentially stronger U.S.-Turkish relations, given the Republican Party's traditional security-minded approach, valuing Ankara's strategic position. Then Bush's arguably flawed move to invade Iraq changed the whole Middle East and indeed the world, straining ties with Turkey. In hindsight a Gore presidency might have made the world a different and probably better place, most of the same analysts now argue. "
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