Posted on 05/10/2006 7:23:22 PM PDT by a_Turk
"Can you explain that one? I'm trying to figure out your thinking."
To offer another perspective, the Turks have been in Anatolia over a 1000 years - a millennia. So I'd say they have as much a claim to that land as anybody else.
Also, Kurdish seperatist terrorist groups like PKK have murdered large numbers of Turkish civilians along with foreigner tourists in Turkey. Hence, the U.S. government classifies PKK as a terrorist organization.
This is false.
How do you get an Army to stop fighting?
Stop their paychecks, which is exactly what we did with the defeated Iraqi army.
The defeatists use the drip-drip technique that worked in Vietnam. With lots of work, it won't be repeated. But that being said, the Rasmussen polls show slipage in support that is directly pinned on defeatists getting high profile coverage. I see success with my eyes and hear defeat everywhere. Ugly.
And the lie is still being spread.
Amen. We are already seeing the fallacy of that thinking from Mosul in the North to Basra (in the Brit sector) in the South, where Sadr's gangs are openly challenging the Coalition, and the Iraqi Army (and paving the way for the entry of the Iranians). Then again, nobody said that Zinni knew all that much anyway.
This is the earliest, and the most oft-repeated criticism of the OIF campaign plan. In fact, Black Beret Shinseki got this party started before the war even took place, with his celebrated (in Leftist circles) "300,000 troops" statement before Congress. Of course, the reason Shinseki used the figure 300,000 (more recently upgraded to 500,000 by even more thoughtful people with 20/20 hindsight)is because he believed that asking for 300,000 US troops would effectively kill the operation (just as Colin Powell cited inflated projections of US casualties, based on carefully rigged war games, to try to kill Operation Desert Storm).
What no one, not Zinni with his 330,000 - 495,000 figure, nor Shinseki with his more modest 300,000 soldiers, has ever explained is where these additional US troops were supposed to come from (i.e. without denuding other theaters of committed forces and/or reserves); and they have not said how long we could have maintained that level of commitment of manpower without additional forces to rotate through the Iraqi Theater. Nor, their protestations notwithstanding, could the critics have guaranteed that an Iraqi insurgency, and a foreign terrorist campaign, would not have emerged even with a million US troops in Iraq. In fact the more "boots on the ground" in Iraq, the larger the contingent of highly vulnerable logistics and maintenance soldiers that would have been required to keep the "teeth" of the operation functioning.
Is Zinni really that stupid to propose such a thing ..??
I didn't post this article because I agree with it.
I do not agree with this author :)) Nor do I agree with the other one with his anti-globalization sentiments.
A lot of you seem to think that all Kurds are cool. That just is not so. Just like not all Turks are cool. Most people in the world are ok, though.. But those few who are liars (even among you) need to be corrected, and those who are fools need to be shown plainly that the line that seperates good and bad is not the same line that seperates the religions or nations.
So the territory now known as Turkey was an empty wasteland before Christianity?
Why then did the ancient Jason and his Argonauts find city after city, kingdom after kingdom on their passage through the Bosporus to the Black Sea? (Myths, by the way, are almost always based on some historical truth that has been embellished by the oral traditions of the day.)
What about the Anatolian Hittite Empire? Nonexistent?
I ask as a Greek with deep roots in Izmir (Smyrna). Izmir itself is believed to have been founded around 3000 B.C.
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