[SolidWood]

The Armenian Army is part of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq. The Turks prevented our plans to move into Iraq from the north. Regarding Iraq, Armenia is on our side, while Turkey sides with Iran. I have little sympathy with Turkey.

This House resolution is morally right. But it comes to an bad time. The Turks are threatening to invade Kurdistan, and we just harshly asked them to stay away. I see little good in angering them with this resolution further.

[KJC1]

What prompted this resolution at this time?

I haven’t been following this.

[montag813]

Armenia is on our side, while Turkey sides with Iran

You're joking right? Turkey is one of Israel's closest allies. The Turkish military is tasked by their constitution to prevent Islamic rule. An Islamic State is anathema to them. Is the Turkish government a bunch of creeps? Yes. But the military is pro-America and pro-Israel.

[montag813]

The Turks prevented our plans to move into Iraq from the north.

That was Colin Powell's doing. Turkey supported us in 1991 because James Baker visited Ankara 3 times in the space of a month, and Bush 41 called the Turkish PM several times. In 2003, Powell refused to visit Ankara a single time, Bush did not call them either, and Powell demanded Turkey permit entry into Iraq, and even threatened to cancel a scheduled $30 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Turkey. My college friend who works in Istanbul faxed me cartoons from that time showing the Turkish PM sitting in George W. Bush's lap holding a bag of money. Colin Powell is an IDIOT who wrecked the entire diplomatic situation. This angle of the Iraq War has been entirely ignored by the media.

[demecleze]

I never liked them in NATO or getting all that military tech.

I always thought they were biding their time.

We don’t need allies like that.