Comments on: Joint Chiefs Want Big Changes for Iraq?

By: truthpointerouter

truthpointerouter — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:39:16 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:43:44 +0000

Edward,
Turkey isn’t going to be able to stop or do much at all about the inevitable advent of an independent Kurdish state in what was northern Iraq.
I served two years in the early 1990s 80’s and three between 1999 and 2002 based in Turkey. The Turkish military machine is not what it is cracked up to be. They very nearly lost the war against their own Kurds. They can’t defeat both Iraq’s Kurds and their own as well.

By: BT

BT — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:18:44 +0000

A three way confederation with shared oil revenue is the only short term solution in Iraq. Turkey will just have to like it. It was a British Empire pretend state anyway. Sorry all of you Realists, the reorganization and a shift in the balance of power in the Middle East are required. Who knows how all the ethnic groups will re-shape the Middle East, but it will their choice this time. In my opinion, that is a good thing.

By: Edward Liu

Edward Liu — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:27:05 +0000

There is no way any solution to Iraq that involves an independent Kurdish state will work. Turkey will never go for it, and may well invade if such a state were created. We might be able to wash our hands of it and say, “Not our problem,” if it came to that, but that would be an incredibly crappy way to reward the only ethnic group in Iraq that is genuinely allied with America and has a reasonably stable, functional society.
Besides, the Shiites and the Sunnis won’t go for any deal where the other bloc gets the oil lands.

By: campbell

campbell — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:10:19 +0000

hello folks. always assuming that DefenseTech is read by persons who may actually have the ear of the Pentagon and Administration; here’s a suggestion: divide Iraq in thirds, let there be a Kurd nation, a Sunni nation, a Shite nation. allow/assist each to develop their own “democratic” process of government. allow these three nations to fight out their own civil wars, as they may. get our own military out ASAP. Substitute massive foreign aid dollars (cheap compared to military costs).
any takers? wanna make book?