The most ignored feature of the 2016 election campaign, that in so many respects turned out to be unique, is that no one among the candidates tried to provide an answer to two seemingly simple but critically important questions.  The first:  which country or organization represents the main danger to the United States?  The second: is Turkey a friend or foe of the United States in regard to general developments in the Middle East, and to the Syrian Crisis in particular? The relationship between Obama and the president of Turkey, Erdoğan, has a long and complex history.  It started during the spring of 2009, when the young and totally inexperienced president of the United States, Barack Obama, chose Turkey as the first country to visit, keeping with his vision of a brand new relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. We are well familiar with the multitude of facts that lead every unbiased observer to the inevitable conclusion that a...(Read Full Article)