Over at the Media Blog, Greg writes up his impromptu appearance at Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Manhattan presser yesterday. Here’s the filet:

The main take-away is that Weiner not only slams Turkey, but takes a shot at U.S. foreign policy toward Turkey, and in the process, implicates the Obama administration:
Look, we sometimes in our U.S. foreign policy, we sometimes have what we hope will be in front of what we see clearly happening. And we are constantly on the lookout for the moderate Arab state that is going to be the one that’s going to be the linchpin of our policy there. And we sometimes don’t just look at how they’re behaving. Turkey has not act — this was clearly instigated by Turkey.
I guess that “hope and change” in foreign policy isn’t going over so well.
Weiner ends with, to answer my original question, “I would call them, at least today, a former ally until they start acting like they are an ally.”

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