President Joe Biden on May 9 will welcome his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House, rolling out the red carpet as part of a deal to get Erdogan to drop his veto over Sweden’s NATO membership.

The invitation will not bring peace; rather, it is the equivalent of giving brass knuckles to a wife beater. Erdogan relishes thumbing his nose at the United States. Two decades of deliberate incitement have transformed Turkey into one of the world’s most anti-American countries. Turkish brown shirts repeatedly attack American servicemen in Turkey. In 2017, Erdogan sicced his bodyguards on peaceful protesters in the heart of Washington, D.C., sending several to the hospital. To date, Turkey has failed to return its henchmen to face justice or compensate American victims.