[ilostmykeys]

Obama and Hillary made a huge error in judgment by siding with a fascist. It's amazing how we haven't gotten ourselves in deep sh!t already given how badly our leaders judge situations. But maybe we have, and we just don't know it yet.

[mikeash]

What else should they have done? Siding with a military coup against a nominally democratic government would look terrible, and when the coup lost they'd look like complete idiots. Remaining neutral wouldn't have been much better.

[hx87]

Yes, how dare they not support a coup against a democratically elected government!

[ihsw]

This is not democracy.

The people had little choice in deciding their fate, now they have no choice. Erdogan is here to stay -- he will either eventually pass away of old age (see: Zimbabwe's eternal president, Mugabe) or be assassinated.

[tremon]

"democratically elected" seems to be the only democratic part of Erdogan's reign.

[JohnStrange]

Adolf Hitler was also democratically elected. Just sayin' ...

[mtgx]

Without making this too political, this is exactly why good judgement is so much more important than "experience" alone. Hillary is proving herself once again incapable of making good decisions in such tough situations, and who knows to what future catastrophes her bad decisions will lead, if she becomes president.

At least Obama is threatening to throw Turkey out of NATO, but knowing Obama's ABC policy (Always-Be-Compromising), it's just an empty threat, and Erdogan likely knows it.