10-24-2016, 10:57 PM
(10-24-2016, 09:59 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > [indent]<QUOTE>"You are not my interlocutor. You are not at my
> level. You are not my equivalent. You are not of the same quality
> as me.
>
> Your screaming and shouting in Iraq is of no importance to us.
> You should know that we will go our own way."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
The emphasis on which leader is at whose "level" is weirdly reminiscent of records from Hittite leaders. I guess Erdogan thinks he is a "great king" and Al-Abadi merely a regular "king".