Posted on 02/25/2008 8:09:17 PM PST by values
Iraqi Kurd official says Kurds unequal US ally Kurdistani Nuwe Saturday, January 26, 2008 Document Type: OSC Translated Excerpt
Iraqi Kurd official says Kurds unequal US ally
The USG Open Source Center translates an opinion piece from a major Kurdish Iraqi newspaper containing quotes from a Kurdish official about the Kurdish-US relationship. The piece maintains that the alliance is one of convenience on the US side; is not as strong as that between Washington and Kuwait; and may not last if the interests of the two diverge. [This disillusionment may derive from the green light the US has recently given Turkey to bomb Kurdish villages in northern Iraq that are suspected of harboring guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers Party or PKK.]
Excerpt from opinion piece by Farid Asasard - fourth in a series of articles - entitled "Kurdish-US- relations between desire and fact with an introduction by the editorial secretary of Kurdistani Nuwe: The fall of the former regime was the basis for Kurdish-US common interests", carried by Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) newspaper Kurdistani Nuwe on 24 January
(Excerpt) Read more at juancole.com ...
The US appreciate greatly the resolve and courage of the Iraqi Kurds.
It is a fantastic thing that northern Iraq was one of the first stable areas of the country.
The US feels for those struggling to find a place for themselves in the world.
Turkey is a US ally.
The Kurds also would like to incite or conduct a rebellion in Turkey to create a Kurdistan, that’s not news to anyone.
The US is approving of status-quo in this case. Amiable relations with Turkey and amiable relations with the Iraqi Kurds.
The US will not take sides in a greater Iraqi-Turkey Kurd effort to unify.
Either side can sling mud to their hearts content - that’s the situation.
Every one of our allies is unequal: Get used to it.
-ccm
US. to Kurd allies, deal with the PKK.
Regards
If I were a Kurd, I’d wonder why Kosovo and not us? But I’m not a Kurd.
If it was a marriage of convenience, why is the divorce so messy?
The north wind doesn't blow... it sucks!!!(CA conservative proverb)
1965 San Francisco Hippy proverb:"There is no gravity... The Earth sucks!"
Oh! And I forgot the best one by former President Jimmy Carter to American black woman in the “projects,” agitating for more welfare:”Life is not fair!”
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