Here. Condoleezza Rice has positioned the United States on the wrong side here. 1.5 million Turks would not come out to protest against creeping Islamism if it were not there. They sense a threat to which our diplomats appear blind. We should be siding with adherence to Supreme Court decisions and the rule-of-law, exactly what the Turkish military in its veiled statement warned the Islamists in Turkey to do. Prime Minister Erdogan had previously and repeatedly ignored court rulings against him and his party. He had also prosecuted journalists who criticized him. His chief advisor, Cuneyd Zapsu, has donated money to an al-Qaeda front charity (as identified by the UN and U.S. Treasury Department). We’ve abandoned liberals, dissidents, and democrats in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran. We should not add Turkey to the list.