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Turkey approved military action against Kurdish separatists
Yow!
I saw this coming, but that doesn't make it any better.
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Yow!
I saw this coming, but that doesn't make it any better."In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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"Parliamentary approval, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said before the debate, would not necessarily trigger immediate military action and many analysts doubt a full-scale invasion will be launched."
This sounds hopeful."In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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You know what we should do. As soon as the Turkish army enters Iraq, we withdraw all our forces to Kuwait. Then Iraq becomes Turkey's problem and we pretend like nothing happened.Comment
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90% certain that it will be limited to the immediate border area. The US policy seems to be privately giving the Turks a free hand to root out PKK from the immediate border area while publicly giving weak protests to keep the Iraqis happy.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Anything that makes the Turks side with us more ...<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
You know what we should do. As soon as the Turkish army enters Iraq, we withdraw all our forces to Kuwait. Then Iraq becomes Turkey's problem and we pretend like nothing happened.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
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Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
You know what we should do. As soon as the Turkish army enters Iraq, we withdraw all our forces to Kuwait. Then Iraq becomes Turkey's problem and we pretend like nothing happened.
And then say, well, you can't leave... you'll create a civil war!
Brilliant! We should push through that Armenian Genocide vote to make it more likely Turkey will invade
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Only you could consider it a weak protestThe US policy seems to be privately giving the Turks a free hand to root out PKK from the immediate border area while publicly giving weak protests to keep the Iraqis happy.
In any case, we wanted something to unite Sunnis/Shia
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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What do you call holding a few press conferences but not actually doing anything meaningful? Reasonable people call that a weak protest.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I would call the president pleading with the legeslature over a retarded amendment giving a **** about Turkey.What do you call holding a few press conferences but not actually doing anything meaningful? Reasonable people call that a weak protest.
What do you want us to do, bomb them?"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I'm not sure the Turks will actually invoke the Bush Doctrine (ie, attacking states that harbor terrorists), but they want to try to force the US to change its policy or they'll threaten to use more force. Meh, if Iran did this, we'd tell them to screw off.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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If Iran did this, we'd scream bloody murder and threaten airstrikes.
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