[George W. Bush]

I always thought that our fight was against terrorists and Islamists.

It is. You just don't seem to recognize how many countries that includes.

Is it beyond the realm of possibility that your post war plans for the New Iraq will turn around and bite us, with a bizarre mix of Marxists and Islamists killing everyone and everything which disagrees with them having a piece of the action there? How do you propose to control these parties? Is there not a lethal amount of wishful thinking in your plans?

Oh, and if we only let Turkey do anything that comes into their violent pointy little heads, everything would be fine?

You could offer no guarantee on these same matters if we and the others hadn't put Turkey on a leash. I don't think you've even begun to realize just how badly Turkey has harmed itself in these matters. So unnecessary, so stupid.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Erdogan and his buffoons have cheapened and discredited their country, to be sure, and I understand why the President has written him of the list of folks to contact about the current conflict.

What I can't understand is turning a blind eye to the PKK and Iranian Islamists, and giving them a piece of the action in New Iraq. A strong Turkish presence in Northern Iraq would, on the other hand, definitely burn out the hornets' nest of the PKK, and make the reconstruction of the country just that much easier.

What I see here is not a plan designed to succeed in creating a new country ultimately governed by law. I see a plan which has, as its primary objective, thumbing its nose at Turkey. That strikes me as counter-productive. I see nothing but future problems, unless the Turkish Army quits twiddling its thumbs and decides to get rid of Erdogan and the AKP.

I see no value at all in setting up a bigger and better PKK, with a rejuvenated Islamic Iran, to boot.