Make or Break?

Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen has finally become the NATO Secretary-General. Following 36 hours of objection, Turkish President Abdullah Gul was convinced and he didn't use Turkey's veto power in NATO Council.

What did Turkey get in exchange of her support? Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan listed it vaguely:

1) Roj TV, the mouthpiece of the PKK terrorism which is based in Copenhagen, will be shut down.

2) Rasmussen will clarify his position on Islam during his Istanbul visit next week (A late apology for the cartoon crisis?)

3) The deputy of the Secretary-General will be a Turk.

4) NATO's Special Envoy to Afghanistan will be a Turk.

Officially, we don't really know what "the package" is, so it's hard to draw a good picture now. However, I can say that this is not a win-win situation.

Turkey didn't actually win anything, because it approved Rasmussen's bid without receiving anything tangible, other than the verbal "guarantee" of President Obama.

NATO didn't actually win anything, because it has got the wrong man on charge now. Rasmussen, who is literally hated in the Muslim world, in charge of Afghanistan War??? Don't you frickin' have another suitable candidate in NATO? Partly-witless Turkish objection could potentially deliver NATO from its grim future, but it is too late.

The EU didn't actually win anything, because it has alienated Turkey and made the bilateral relations even worse. The EU's arrogant stance in the summit was more disgusting than the Turkish horse bargain. EU Commissioner Olli Rehn has related Rasmussen issue to Turkey's EU bid and that was just gross.

So it was actually a lose-lose occasion. I guess that we, all, couldn't make it and it is broken... Let's see if it will be fixed in the future somehow.