>> We may want to get there before the war to keep the Turks out of Iraq and keep the Turks and Kurds away from each other.
You don't know what you're talking about. We're already in there by the tens of thousands with hundreds of tanks and support equipment, even mobile phone relay stations have been set up by Turk Telecom to let our GIs communicate with their families, plus we've got an airbase there which we refurbished a year ago..
Your objective, BTW, is not to keep this or that group away from one another. It is to topple Saddam. Once that's done, there'll be new assessments of practicality. By then, I venture to guess, we'll have captured
Osman Ocalan and his
brainwashed suicide bombing PKK murderers.
If tracking down and killing the terror threat is not part and parcel of this war on terror, then what is?
I simply repeat my last post to you.WE're worried about loss of life and extension of hostile action. (and I know you are ,too.)