Gus Bilirakis: “And following up what the gentleman said, and I plan to talk about this later, but a big thing is being made these days…”

“And following up what the gentleman said, and I plan to talk about this later, but a big thing is being made these days by the Turks, and I might add by our government here, regarding the ordering of S-300 missiles, defensive missiles. I emphasize defensive missiles by Cyprus, and the fact is this is going to destabilize things and what not. Now here is a country which is really completely defenseless, as we have already indicated. They have no army to speak of. It is all a national guard, and they want to do what Turkey has been doing for years. They have certainly a defense system set up, and how, again with the use of American dollars and American arms in Turkey. So Cyprus wants to order some defensive missiles, and of course that is being resented as a destabilizing force against peace. And so this is really what the real world is like regarding Cyprus, and it is just amazing to me that the United States Government, which is the only entity that can really do something about this, is not showing a stronger hand.”