[bill1952]

The Kurds have a problem and they need to clean it up.

Yeah. Its called the Turkish army in that part of the world, and the Kurds are doing their part to clean it up.

Frankly, I am quite sure that this is for domestic consumption.

The idea of the Turk military being so appallingly stupid as to move into Iraq while we are there is on a par with Saddam thinking that the American army on his border would not invade.
Most people thereabouts remember the young turks and the Armenian genocide, but I do see your point in that if the Kurds are hiding behind our skirts while stirring up the pot, then they had best have more of a plan than that.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Kurds are hiding behind our skirts while stirring up the pot"

The Kurds are not hiding and stirring . . .

"US special envoy for countering the PKK, retired Gen. Joseph Ralston, said: '[The PKK] should be treated as murderers by everyone, including the United States.'

It's the Marxist PKK.

The Bush Administration appointed Gen. Ralston to work with Turkey and the Kurdish government to solve the Marxist PKK problem.