SubhashFeb 28th, 2008 - 15:00:03

Let me get this right: WE reserve the right to go into any country threatening us, refuse to set deadlines, occupy the country for 6 years, all in the name of fighting terrorism, but we expect Turkey to provide deadlines and refrain from 'destabilizing' Iraq?? Oh, and by the way, says GAtes, there is no military solution to terrorism, either in Turkey or in Pakistan. Really? So why are 140,000 American soldiers in Iraq?

Just you wait friends, this is only the beginning of the Pandora's box we have opened up in the world with our 'pre-emptive' strike against any country perceived to harbor terrorists, our imprisoning human beings for years without due process, our torture, our warentless wiretapping. We will be suffering the blow back from all this for generations. Rather than promoting democracy and freedom around the world, we did the very opposite, emboldened and empowered the bad guys and provided them with thousands of new recruits.

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michael ukFeb 28th, 2008 - 15:11:46

Sounds like they are trying to anex northern parts of Iraq as they did with Cypress. Leaves the US in a bit of a bind as they managed to instal there military in Turkey. As history shows once the US military have have occipied part of someone's country its almost impossible to get rid of them (eg Gantanimo bay in Cuba or Okinawa in japan)

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Think RationallyFeb 28th, 2008 - 15:13:36

Why is the US criticizing Turkey? They are simply copying our policy.

Could it be that we are going to turn on the Kurds as we turned on Saddam Hussein? Or will we continue to support the Kurds and a contrary united Iraq?

Few people realize the core of the problem stretches back to the Treaty of Versailles, when national boundaries were drawn that split apart a shatter belt, where Armenians, Turks, Arabs both Shia and Sunni, and Kurds have all competed for years. Kurds were the ones who were left out, and Iraq forcibly stuck together. Yet we support Turkey, and the Kurds.

We cannot keep helping both sides. We shouldn't even pick a side at all. We never hurt the PKK before, and we have used Turkey as a strategic bastion. We need to let all of these problems be.

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Of course Turkey will refuse to give a timetableFeb 28th, 2008 - 19:39:23

... they're just following Bush's example.

And the US has no credibilty at all - zero, zip, nada - in pressuring Turkey for a quick mission and withdrawal.

Thank you again Mr. Bush.

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