America’s conquest of Iraq de-stabilized Turkey’s Western orientation more than the US cares to admit. Most Turks don’t want to see their country excluded from the West, but if the EU spurns them while speeding up entry for weaker candidates, Turkey may come to feel sufficiently strong and embittered to strike out on a new geo-political course.
.美国对伊拉克的征服动摇了土耳其亲西方的态度，其程度超过了美国愿意承认的程度。绝大多数土耳其人不想看到他们的国家被排除在西方之外，但是如果欧盟拒绝他们的同时加快了更弱小国家的加入，土耳其可能会强烈而充满怨恨地感到要开始一个新的地缘政治进程。