So how hard should Turkey hit Iraq? Maybe destroy 15,000 homes?

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An interesting take From Gwynne Dyer at Arab News:

Hezbollah, PKK and American Hypocrisy
Tuesday 30 October 2007

Fifteen months ago, the armed wing of Lebanon’s Hezbollah party, listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and most other Western countries, attacked Israel’s northern border, capturing two Israeli soldiers and killing eight more. Israel replied with a month of massive air attacks all across Lebanon that destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, leveled a good deal of south Beirut, and killed around a thousand Lebanese civilians.

Washington, London, Ottawa and some other Western capitals insisted that this was a reasonable and proportionate response, and shielded Israel from intense diplomatic pressure to stop the attacks even when Israel launched a land invasion of southern Lebanon in early August, 2006. The operation only ended when Israeli casualties on the ground mounted rapidly and the Israeli government pulled its troops back.

So what would be a reasonable and proportionate Turkish response to the recent attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and most other Western countries, from northern Iraq into southeastern Turkey? More than forty Turkish civilians and soldiers have been killed in these attacks over the past two weeks, and a further eight Turkish soldiers were captured.

Well, it would be unreasonable for Turkey to bomb Iraq, where the PKK’s bases are, for any more than one month. It would be quite disproportionate for the Turkish Air Force to level more than a small part of Baghdad — say, 15,000 homes. Ideally, it should leave Baghdad alone and restrict itself to destroying some Kurdish-populated city in northern Iraq near Turkey’s own border. Moreover, when the Turks do invade Iraq on the ground, they should restrict themselves to the northern border strip where the PKK’s bases are.

More at http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=102980&d=30&m=10&y=2007

I'm thinking that maybe the Turks should shower a few population centers with American supplied cluster bombs - the gift that keeps on giving. That would teach those pesky Kurdish children not to have parents of the same ethnicity as terrorists.

Oh, and for the record: :sarcasm:

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1. Good point.

I have just finished reading the book on the Israel Lobby by Walt and Mearsheimer and really find the actions of AIPAC etc. to be almost as despicable as the cowardice of the US congresspeope who went along with the IDF kill and overkill. The American people have to be heard on this one day.

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2. "They Dare to Speak Out"

by former Congressman Paul Findley is quite informative as well.