Goodbye For Now, America
Claire Berlinski ·
Sep 14, 2010 at 1:59pm
I'm at the airport in Newark waiting for the plane to board. I'll be back in Turkey in about 16 hours, according to the schedule. Here's the latest news from Turkey, for those of you who still aren't convinced the place is interesting. Is it true? If it is, that's brazen as hell. If it isn't--well, welcome back to Turkey, Claire, where nothing is what it seems.
Goodbye for now, America. You have no idea how much I'll miss you.
I'll be back. Meanwhile, please take better care of yourself.
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Jun '10
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Claire, Good luck, stay safe, and here's hoping that Turkey's new infatuation (by some) with radicalism is mostly for political show.
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Here's hoping America's is, too. Thanks, etoile ...
Aug '10
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Sakin, sakininiz. thanks for all the podcasts,keep it up
May '10
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I'm still not convinced you were ever in America. ;)
Seriously, I'm glad you got to come home and visit your family, but it's almost like you're not the same Claire we all know when you're not flirting with Eurasian fault lines.
My prayers are with your Turkish friends.
Aug '10
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Eeek! Good luck, Claire!
Sep '10
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Arrivederci, Claire. It sure looks like Turkey's getting ready to sell out to radical Islam. I hope you packed your burqa.
May '10
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I've always wondered why so many people who Love America choose to live a long ways away. For example, the entire public wing of the Berlinski family.
Aug '10
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Oh Claire, we hardly knew ye. Safe travels, and may your flight(s) back to Turkey be uneventful.
Aug '10
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Perhaps the cause-and-effect here is reversed from what you said: People in America tend to take it for granted, since they don't know any better. But people who were born here and who live (not tour) elsewhere realize how special America is.
Anyhow, it's nice to have a lady like Claire reporting from abroad. We can trust Claire.
May '10
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Perhaps the cause-and-effect here is reversed from what you said: People in America tend to take it for granted, since they don't know any better. But people who were born here and who live (not tour) elsewhere realize how special America is.
Anyhow, it's nice to have a lady like Claire reporting from abroad. We can trust Claire. · Sep 14 at 4:24pm
No argument. I just wondered. We know why she moved to Istanbul, and I assume that David's wife is Parisian or something; if Rubber Duckie needed to work in Haiti or Belgium, I'd be there. Mischa is with his wife, who works for some international NGO, if I recall Haiti article correctly.
My older daughter got a great job offer, so she's an ex-pat, and my younger daughter worked overseas for two years, then her domestic opportunity came up, so I know how these things go.
Just idle thinking-out-loud.