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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's a great idea. We haven't done enough damage already, so let's take our second-best ally in the region and really piss them off.
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Hey, I said "a teensy part." I don't disagree. That said, do you see this going in a different direction? I'm becoming more pessimistic that the centre simply isn't going to hold in Baghdad, and our forces -- whether 160k, or Bush's "Korea-clone" 50k, withdraws to the periphery in the north or in Kuwait or something.
Maybe they all go to Kirkuk, which might placate the Turks to some degree, but by that time Kurdistan is de facto independent anyway.
Clearly, I don't have a good appreciation for the Turk/Kurdish dynamic. Yes, I know that Kurds are spread across Iraq/Iran/Turkey, and I know that their separatist notions in Turkey are and have been a real problem. But with Kurdistan operating pretty much independently since the early 90s, I don't see the domino effect that I keep reading about, which is supposedly what Turkey fears most about this stuff.
