With a civil war raging, scores of troops and thousands of civilians dying in Iraq every month how could things get worse in this shattered country? Turkey's increasing drumbeat for war with the Kurds is heating things up and because the Bush Administration is in charge, diplomacy is not their answer for the brewing problem. One of the U.S. main allies before the occupation started was with the Kurdish people, now we are going to bomb them for Turks.
From The Herald Sun:
According to an official familiar with the conversation, Mr Bush assured the Turkish President that the US was seriously looking into options beyond diplomacy to stop the attacks coming from Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
"It's not 'Kumbaya' time any more - just talking about trilateral talks is not going to be enough," the official said.
"Something has to be done."
While the use of US soldiers on the ground to root out the PKK would be the last resort, the US would be willing to launch air strikes on PKK targets, the official said, and has discussed the use of cruise missiles.
So instead of keeping the Turks (and the Kurds as well) in place using the tools of diplomacy, we'll shoot off Cruise missiles at $750,000 a pop to bomb them back away from Turkey. All Bush knows is violence, and in turn we shall get it back from the Kurds. It does not take a rocket scientist or a geopolitical specialist to tell you that if you bomb a group of people, chances are they might not like you too much.
Nevertheless, Bush is willing to start more mayhem just so that he can keep the Turks out of Iraq....even though he will be doing their bidding for them and on the American taxpayer's dime. Brilliant!
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