MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Turkey executing bombing campaign in Northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels
By artappraiser on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 7:19am |CNN, August 18, 2011
Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq's rugged mountains for a second consecutive night Thursday after an ambush on a southeastern Turkey highway killed eight soldiers and a government-employed guard, the semi-official Anatolian News Agency reported.
In the second operation, F-16s took off Thursday night from Diyarbakir and bombed targets in northern Iraq, returning three hours later, the agency said, citing ministry sources.
Earlier Thursday, the military had said in a statement that Turkish artillery pounded more than 100 targets in the border region.....
For more details, see the Voice of America reports here, here and here.
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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-18/world/turkey.kurds.strike_1_turkish-warplanes-kurdish-rebel-targets-qandil?_s=PM:WORLD
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The Kurds were always fair game in the arab world. It was the intervention by the US against Saddam where the Kurds had a big bully on the sidelines to protect them. Only thing now is the US isn't so inclined to protect there asses anymore. In fact, they're leaving a void and the rest of the arab world knows it and are starting to react. That area of northern Iraq where the Kurds are holed up will become a battle ground with Turkey, Iran, the Shiites in southern Iraq, what's left of Syria and Jordan all taking their frustrations out against the Kurds.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 10:13am
Hmmm. Now we've gone from this to them being asses.
by Elusive Trope on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 4:32pm
Perhaps I should have said proxy instead.
Either way, the US's only interest was to use the plight of the Kurds as a a thorn to stick in Saddam's ass and give the US a justifiable reason for being in the area and harassing him at every turn.
Saddam is gone now and so too will the US, and the Kurds are right back were they were before. If anything, they've made manners worst for themselves because their arab neighbors know the US isn't up for a fight.
The Kurds should have used the past 20 years to mend fences with the arabs so when the time came for the US to pull out, their standing with the arabs would have been on acceptable terms. Instead, all the pent-up hostilities that have been on hold because of the US presence in the area are starting to strike out.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 10:14pm
I know I should probably read up on all this but a quick scan of the links turned up no background on the continuing disputes over water that keeps tensions high and clashes frequent.
I think I will just channel Brad DeLong now: "Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?"
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 2:05pm