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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (35123)7/28/2002 5:16:30 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi stockman_scott; My favorite paragraph from that article saying that the professionals don't want war in Iraq:

A major goal of U.S. policy in a post-Hussein Iraq would be to prevent the creation of an independent state in the heavily Shiite south, or an independent Kurdish state in the north. To fulfill U.S. promises to Turkey and Arab states that Iraq would remain whole, a defense official said, "I think it is almost a certainty that we'd wind up doing a campaign against the Kurds and Shiites." That would represent a striking reversal of administration policy of supporting the Kurds against Baghdad. #reply-17803981

I had an argument with a liberal about 10 years ago about US support for the Kurds. She said that Clinton was going to continue our support for Kurdish independence. I told her that the Kurds were just pawns that we were using in a power struggle and that we wouldn't support any such thing as it would complicate our relationship with Turkey. So now the military is (presumably) getting ready for anti-guerilla actions against the Kurds and Shiites in a post-Hussein Iraq.

If we were going to go into Iraq (we're not, but let's play the game of what if), the result would be a splintering of Iraq similar to what happened to Yugoslavia. It would be some time before Turkey would forgive us.

-- Carl
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