Bush selling out the Kurds?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-10 01:12am

http://nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/7620.htm

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-10-10 01:24am

*chuckles* Oooh. Whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch. Didn't I say months before the invasion that stability in Iraq would hinge on Turkish involvement, even if it did require us to sell out the Kurds? That opinion isn't mine; it comes from someone rather more experienced in the region. The Bush administration fucked up when it failed to bring the Turks onboard early, and now we must give them considerable concessions to do so later on, despite the nominal idea that their "backstabbing" was some sort of severe thing. In fact, the failure to properly deal with the Turks in the coalition building was probably just one of the more blatant examples of one of my worst problems with the administration: Good foreign policy being badly executed. The cost of this is obvious as we now get less for more months later. But at least it still might work.

What is this fantastist thinking, anyway? That the USA can support Kurdish aims in the Mid-East? Please; even I don't think we can fight Iran, Turkey, Syria, and an uprising in Iraq simultaneously.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-10 01:53am

I somehow doubt we'd be using the Turk's division to garrison Kurdish territory, seeing how all the attacks and problems are taking place well south of it.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-10-10 02:17am

Sea Skimmer wrote:I somehow doubt we'd be using the Turk's division to garrison Kurdish territory, seeing how all the attacks and problems are taking place well south of it.

Oh, no--they'd be headed for Sunni Islamic territory, definitely. Quite possibly straight into the fire (such as it is--casualties that we suffer in Iraq and arouse discontent in certain circles would be absolutely nothing to the Turkish electorate) We'll pay heavily for it, though, if we work out an agreement to put the Turks in a hot zone. That's where the Kurds lose.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-10-10 05:36am

They're going to the West, if they're going at all. And it's not just the Kurds who don't like it. The Iraqis want nothing to do with them either.