Monday - October 15, 2007

Why Now?

Back from a weekend in Knoxville with my brother, which explains why I feel totally out of touch with world events of the last few days.

I see Her Highness is still pushing this resolution about the genocide in Turkey 90 years ago.  I don’t get it.  Well, I do get it actually.  This is the only thing she thinks she can do to thwart the war effort and poke a stick in GWB’s eye.  I see it every day, but it still amazes me that they are willing to put party and personal politics above national security and national interests.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Top US Democrats Sunday brushed off Turkish fury and vowed to press ahead bill condemning the mass killing of Armenians decades ago as “genocide,” insisting that bloodshed today demanded a righting of past wrongs.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said possible reprisals affecting Turkey’s cooperation with the US military were “hypothetical” and would not derail the resolution.

Holding a vote on condemning the massacre, even many years after the fact, is “about who we are as a country,” Pelosi told ABC television.

Of course, that’s not how Turkey sees it.

Turkey has repeatedly said that if the Congress passes the Armenian resolution U.S.-Turkey relations would suffer. It is now understood that Turkey will tell the U.S. that it might cut or restrict the logistical support that Turkey provides the U.S. military in Iraq through Incirlik airbase – also affecting the future withdrawal of U.S. from Iraq, via Turkey.

The other dimension is Turkish military’s disappointment with the U.S for its inaction against the PKK and tolerating the terrorists based in northern Iraq that launch attacks inside Turkey - a long time ally of the U.S. and a partner in the war against terrorism

Another bumbling fool of a Donk that we’ll have to clean up after.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/15/2007 at 09:13 AM   
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