Hello KastelCo, <<screwed again>> ... I believe it would be shortsighted of the US administration to do it to the Kurds once again by inviting in the Turks to pacify Northern Iraq, because (a) success of policy is far from assured, (b) sets a bad image as reliable ally (especially vis-a-vis the Shiites), (c) sinks Islamic Turkey into their own quagmire that may destablize Republic Turkey by and by, and (d) further expands and confuses the situation on the ground (imagine Sunni Iraqi fighters dressed in Turkish uniform attacking the Kurds setting off Kurds on US-Turkish troops, etc).
By once again chucking aside the UN and the Europeans/Russians, the US will have a much harder time should it become necessary to ask them for help again as the situation invariably gets messier.
The new Turkish initiative may actually turn out to be more of the old way, meaning shoot from the hip, improvise, mess up, and improvise again, like cleaning up an ink spill by wiping the stuff across the entire table cloth.
We may be moving further and further from any genuine solutions, but closer and closer to the seemingly inevitable conclusion.
Chugs, Jay |
