Don’t forget the Turkoman v Kurd conflict in Kirkuk that is involving the Turks at only a slightly lower rate of interest than that the PKK problem. Then there’s the US “ally”, the MEK, in Kurdistan who are considered a terrorist group by most of the world and Iran wants to wipe out.
We really need to find somewhere else to be.
]]>Gee Dub and his little band of half-wit neocon nation-builders have mismanaged the dynamics of this exercise in ways that will add new textures to the whole concept of “hopelessly inept”…
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]]>Not that this is unusual for U.S. policy in the area. We were selling anti-tank missiles to the Iranians at the same time that we were selling chemical and biological warfare gear to the Iraqis back during their 1980’s war, after all… arming both sides of conflicts in that area seems to be, like, an old hobby of the United States for some reason. Huh!
– Badtux the History Penguin
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