Posted on 03/16/2003 12:57:29 PM PST by Happy2BMe
I don't think that for example, that the US keeping 60,000 odd troops on ships off the coast of Turkey....for the purpose of stopping a Turkish incursion into N. Iraq......would be sufficient.
Turkey is capable of moving a much larger force into the theatre. You'd have to back-up the 60,000 troops with overwhelming air-power.....and more GI's. The Turks aren't Iraqi's.....they'd be tougher, for certain.
I think its best for the US that this scenerio doesn't play-out. It would force a quick subduing of Iraq, and a turn of significant force to the north....to meet the Turks.
Pulling this off.......for the USA has become more than just a feat, it's become a political confrontation and gamble for GW & Co.
So. I don't blame it on the "clowns", as you put it. The clowns are the French and Germans and the miserably corrupt UN.
It's time for the US took kick some serious ass.....a little force will go a long way. Let's not forget the 'real world'..........or adversaries remind us of it daily.
The Turks may be dumb, but they aren't stupid.
Why is this part of the world begging to be destroyed?
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