[Mortimer Snavely]

By making sure that no Kurdish power base can be established and a resurgent Kurdish guerilla offensive in the South East, Turkey's acting in her own security interests. This requires denying the PKK and associated hangers-on any oil revenues. Look for a Turkish security zone established in Northern Iraq, and a revived Turkish economy to follow in a few years.

[illumini]

Maybe a KURD power base would be a GOOD idea! Maybe we should go in through Armenia via Georgia. BTW, I was on the Black Sea last September, and it would be a GREAT place to R&R as a GI.

[illumini]

Maybe a KURD power base would be a GOOD idea! Maybe we should go in through Armenia via Georgia. BTW, I was on the Black Sea last September, and it would be a GREAT place to R&R as a GI.

[George W. Bush]

You don't seem to be bothered by the idea that Turkey be allowed to invade and virtually annex a large portion of an internationally recognized country and seize a substantial portion of its national wealth.

I'll be very surprised if the Bush administration will allow this to happen. It would be very very difficult for even the U.N. to tolerate it. I don't think there are any examples of a redistribution of such territories or national wealth in First World or Second World countries in decades. The only military and economic powers in the world know that tolerating such things or participating in them has brought on a huge number of wars. Many of the base causes of Balkan and Middle East disputes were seeded by the carelessness and greed of the European powers when they dominated the affairs of those regions. Many of these same countries are now participating in a process that repeats their past errors.

I don't think Turkish annexation arrangements will fly.