The Turkish Dilemma: This is no time to burn bridges with the only modern -- semi-modern -- Islamic country.

As Anglo-American troops march relentlessly toward military victory in Iraq, American diplomats nervously contemplate the growing wave of hatred and suspicion toward the U.S. in the Islamic world. Some of this hatred is inspired by a false picture of the war in the Arab media and, as in Afghanistan, may be dissipated by postwar evidence that Iraqis are grateful to be rid of Saddam Hussein. But much of it is deeply rooted in the resentments of a decaying culture that blames the West for its own political and economic failures. And that is a much more intractable problem. Indeed, if the West is to overcome this hatred, Islamic culture will first have to overcome its own ...