Here are two mutually contradictory propositions. One may be true, or the other may be true, or they both may be false. But they both can’t be true. Do you think, just possibly, there is a serious problem here?

1) Turkish Youth Group Attacks US Soldiers, Places Sacks Over Their Heads to Protest Israeli Action in Gaza.

2) Turkey is our NATO ally, on whom we rely to defend the southeast flank of Europe – against Russia, for example.