&gt; I do not believe that he has emotions. It&#x27;s all money and power, IMO.<p>If it&#x27;s all money and power, he&#x27;s throwing his lot in with the wrong players IMO.<p>&gt; Then you should have the same approach to terrorist attacks too.<p>I would be glad to think the same of terrorist attacks.  Unfortunately they&#x27;re an almost daily occurrence.<p>&gt; You didn&#x27;t exterminate Germans for the bad they did. Revenge will not bring peace. It&#x27;ll bring more revenge.<p>Yes it will.  And if we did nothing today, Islamists would still be seeking revenge tomorrow.<p>&gt; It is Istanbul now. Who knows what&#x27;ll happen tomorrow?<p>Here&#x27;s 2 predictions.<p>Option 1: Erdogan gets voted out, and it returns to be a vibrant world capital.<p>Option 2: Erdogan stays the course, pisses enough people off that NATO sells him out to the Russians who, along with the Greeks, would love to &#x27;liberate&#x27; Constantinople...