Okay, The Vote Is In…
In an earlier post, I talked about the massing of Turkish and Iranian troops along their conjoined borders with Iraq.
“Murat Karaylan, a leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), said he anticipated a cross-border offensive against the group’s bases in northern Iraq following the general elections in Turkey”, which ended the day before yesterday.
Well, time’s up. Turkey has a new government that supposedly is Islamic but not Islamist. It’s being touted by MSM spin doctors as “proof that an Islamic country can be democratic” but Turkeys secular citizens see the winning Justice and Development (AKP) Party as a Trojan Horse for creeping Islamization of the country, and I bet they’re right. If secular military officers start getting replaced with Islamist ones, that will tell the tale, as it’s the military that keeps Turkey secular in spite of the Islamist politicians.
If an invasion of Iraq was scheduled, it’s been on hold for the elections, which are now decided in favor of the ruling party, so now they’re free to do whatever they’d planned. The Turks and Kurds have an ages old feud. I’m too tired to dig into the history of this right now, (which I’ll explain at the bottom of this post) so take my word for it. The Turks are extremely unhappy that the Kurds are key players in Iraqi politics and are developing a semi- independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Then add in the constant attacks from the Communist Kurds inside Iraq that keep killing Turkish border guards and you have all the makings of an invasion which is at least partially justified.
As I reported earlier, such an invasion has every chance of setting off a much wider conflict. The very many Kurds in Turkey may become involved, the Iranian troops may join in, and then we’d have to get into it because whichever way we jumped, we couldn’t just sit still and watch. Bush believes that he owns Iraq and he won’t tolerate an open invasion. At least that’s my view.
And then there’s this: “GOLAN HEIGHTS — Israel visibly has beefed up its military presence here while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and — for the first time in 30 years — has opened a strategic border road to civilian traffic in a move that some Israeli security officials worry could help facilitate guerilla attacks against Golani Jewish communities.
The escalating military moves on both sides come as a top official from Syrian president’s Baath Party warned in an interview that if Israel does not vacate the Golan Heights by August or September, Syrian guerrillas will launch “resistance operations” against Jewish communities living there.”
Since even the Golan Heights lizards know that the Israelis will never leave there, what the Syrians are actually doing is creating an excuse for assaulting the Jewish settlers. The Israelis took the Heights, which overlook Israeli population centers, away from the Syrians after the Syrians twice used them to attack Israel.
Tired… I’ve spent the last 3 days digging up my back and front yards and running a 900 pound ditch witch in order to lay all new water pipe back to my house from the meter, as a leak sprung in the old pipe and my water bill went moonward. I had to run the ditch well away from the old pipe as the buried power lines cross under it, which complicated the job a bit. The pipe is in and I have water again. Now maybe I can pay a little more attention to The Blob the blog.
July 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Accurate assessment of the situation. I have information from someone in Sadr’s camp, that his Madhi Army/Jam have been conducting 2, perhaps 3, incursions into Turkey from Kurdistan. The intention is to stir up trouble, possibly pull troops out of the Baghdad area and into the North. Thus causing more conflict in the Baghdad and Southern areas and Sadr can step up.
Poor Rastaman, I bet you will be sore today after all that work. (What? You didn’t hire an illegal alien??? heh)
July 25th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Ha ha haaa haaaaaa!!!!!!!
I thought the Golan Heights was supposed to be Hezbollah’s… ummm I mean… Lebanon’s.
Anyways, the stakes are too high for Turkey to launch an invasion in full force. No matter what any talking head says about the prestige of the U.S. being shot, Turkey does not want a military confrontation with the U.S., which could develop from such a scenario.
However, if the Kurds were to launch massive terrorist attacks from Iraq that compare to the 9/11 attacks then Turkey will feel obligated to go to war. Until then we will see the same pattern of scattered terrorist attacks by Kurdish guerillas that attack from their remote bases in the mountains of northern Iraq and limited Turkish reprisals.
It’s funny that Leftists don’t scream “End the Turkish Occupation of Kurdistan”. Like Rastaman points out many of these Kurds are Communists and Socialists. Instead of the usual leftwing support for indigenous terrorist movements, they see this conflict as an opportunity to embarrass the United States. This is because justice and human rights are never the issue with these totalitarian activists. They are just continuing the Cold War against the U.S. so all of their politics revolves around how they can defeat us across the globe.