[Jim Noble]

AFAIK, we had tanks and other stuff on the docks with support troops, and the combatants were on ships in the Med.

And, yes, the minute Turkey said "no", we should have issued a Balfour Declaration for the Kurds and said we would back it up with US forces.

Of all the stupidities in this sad business, making American policy turn on guaranteeing the territorial integrity of the fictitious state called "Iraq" was the first, and the worst.

[leadpenny]

Thanks, I didn't know we had equipment on the docks.