Monday, July 09, 2007

Turkey is getting impatient

And is beginning to amass troops along the border of Iraq:

Baghdad, Iraq (AHN)-Officials in Iraq are accusing neighboring Turkey of massing some 140,000 soldiers on its northern Iraq border, bringing the number of Turkish troops close to the 155,000 U.S. soldiers that are stationed throughout the country.

Turkey, which has accused the U.S. of inaction against Kurdish separatist rebels in the north, has been battling insurgent PKK Kurdish guerrillas since 1984, in a war which has taken an estimated 30,000 lives.

Oh good, just what we need. Another swimmer into the bloodbath that is Iraq. C'mon in, the water's fine.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how the Bushies are going to play it. Aren't both the Kurds *and* the Turks our allies?

I suspect that it should be possible to apply enough pressure to deter Turkey from going in, but I don't know if BushCo. has the will, or even the attention span.

ellroon said...

Things are falling apart so fast I can't see how they think they can last to the end of Bush's term without an utter meltdown in the entire area.

We're about to lose Pakistan and Afghanistan, there's tension in all the 'stans' north of Iran, Saudi Arabia is not happy, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon are erupting and Russia and China are licking their chops...

If chaos is what they wanted so they could steal oil, they got it...