A Timely Lesson - When

A Timely Lesson - When columnists and pundits as diverse as Ann Coulter and Jason Lewis hold forth on the incompatibility of the Moslem and Western worlds, they ignore one of the best examples of political moderation, interfaith coexistence, and friendship to the United States - Turkey.

Tunku Varadarajan writes in Opinion Journal about his admiration for Turkey, its leaders and people. I'll admit - my mother and her husband lived in Turkey quite a while, so may things in this eye-opening article were not news to me. But the fact remains that Turkey is a bastion of small-l liberalism (by near-Eastern standards especially), and after Britain and Israel our most steadfast ally, is news to most Americans. While the pusilanimous EU crabwalks away from the US when the heat is on, Turkey's in there with us. Expect Turkish forces to be heavily engaged in any war against Iraq.