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To: Mortimer Snavely
I am bothered by pro-PKK/Free Kurdistan sentiments on a conservative forum.

I don't think I've ever expressed any remark favoring Kurdish independence. At most a mere semi-autonomous zone or to have it remain a province of Iraq. Given Turkish and Iranian designs upon northern Iraq, I tend to think that northern Iraq should remain under the control of a new Iraqi government after we depose Saddam.

I honestly don't believe that there is any portion of the American foreign policy establishment that favors allowing this sort of annexation. I hear it nowhere except here at FR among the pro-Turkish faction. There's no reason to believe that the Bush administration has any intent of allowing anything like what you describe of letting Turkey annex northern Iraq and its wealth.
29 posted on 03/02/2003 11:05:55 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
"I don't think I've ever expressed any remark favoring Kurdish independence."

Not you personally, but the sentiments frequently infest these threads. Given those posts, and given US plans to arm the Kurds, with anti-aircraft artillery, by the way, and given the principle that the only moral relationships are to the best mutual advantage of the parties concerned, the moral position is, at the very least, a better understanding of the Turks' position.

My fear is of a repeat of JFK's antics in the Bay of Pigs and in Vietnam, overthrowing Diem and stting the stage for the eventual Communist takeover of that poor nation. I see the parallels here in the Turk/Kurd conflict, with the US, once again, by not unambiguously confronting and doing everything necessary to destroy a pack of Marxist mad dogs, enabling through inaction the eventual establishment of yet another Communist hell-hole at the expense of an ally, all the while acting indignantly at the protests of that same ally, inferring that she is really to blame for the mess.

31 posted on 03/02/2003 11:21:12 AM PST by Mortimer Snavely (Is anyone else tired of reading these tag lines?)
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