Tell them that if they don't stop antagonizing Turkey AND Iran that we will leave them to fight their OWN war....Unless the US is PAYING them to do so...good way to broaden the war in that area and try to get Iran's oil... Then blame IRAN for starting the fighting.
Any ideas other than what I have commented on?
2007-10-25 10:51:35 · 12 answers · asked by Fedup Veteran 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because it suits his agenda perfectly. Daddy did the same thing with Kuwait when he allowed Iraq to march in there, then came riding up on his white horse 'liberating' Kuwait...
The definition of 'liberation' in the New Dictionary;
Liberation = Nicking and controlling all your oil.
The US have managed to geth themselves into a position where they can play all sides against each other, and come the end of it all, whenever that is, will come out smelling of roses with more oil than you can poke a stick at.
In the meantime, oil prices soar meaning Bush and his other oil friends make even more money...though seeing as it is only paper backed by more paper, it doesn't really matter.
While all this is going on, has Bush not decalred a National Emergency due to Californian fires??? Check out the Patriot Act...maybe this is his emergency to extend his term.
2007-10-25 11:19:22 · answer #1 · answered by lee h 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The current borders in the middle east were more or less laid down after WWI when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Ethnic Kurdistan ended up divided among Turkey, Iraq & Iran (though the latter two remained under European control for some decades). Some Kurds, even though vanishingly few of them were even alive at the time, can't get over this, and want to carve Kurdistan out of the three modern states in question. So, like anyone else with a historical greivance in the Middle East, they resort to terrorism. In Iraq, the greater instability in the Sunni & Shiite regions has led the US to ignor northern Iraq, so they have a de-facto Kurdistan there, and don't cause much trouble.
In Turkey, there has long been a Kurdish sepratist movement that has resorted to terrorism, and flees over the border at times. Turkey, a constitutionally scular state with aspirations towards modernity and EU membership, can't deal /too/ harshly with the Kurds (though they're still pretty harsh by American standards). A politically isolated theocracy, Iran has no such compunctions.
2007-10-25 11:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the first world war, Kurdistan was divided up into 3 parts by the Brittish and the French. They basically redrew the map of the Middle East and created a bunch of new countries along the way. Each part of Kurdistan became part of another country, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The Kurds just want their country back together again and run by Kurds that's all. Just like if someone divided up the USA and gave half to Mexico and half to Canada. Would you sit still for that?
2007-10-25 11:08:00 · answer #3 · answered by Doug W 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Confront Iran? You recommend like, 'negotiations with out pre-situations'? Mockmood mentioned: "Negotiate what? there's no longer something to barter. Barrack who? what sort of a attractiveness is that for an American? i'm sorry, i'm busy murdering some human beings in the streets. i will hit you lower back when I get a minute, jeez you Yankees purely are not getting it do you?"
2016-11-09 11:29:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PLS Google Kurdish People, the PKK or Kurdish Worker's Party... they have been in this for years. Iran is currently provoking the US into a show down. The good Kurds will be again be caught in the crossfire. They hide in Turkey's hills close to borders and move like Bedouins in the desert. Always mobile and destructive. NO, the US does not pay them but other sources encourage them to keep up the unrest. Like Jihad and so forth.
We are in delicate negotiations here. The area in Iraq they move thru is one of our best stable ones. And it rocks the whole boat. Hope that helps.
http://jihadwatch.org
also note: the oil they are seeking is in the Caspian Sea
Google Trans Caspian Oil Pipeline. It is intended to be sent to the Black Sea and for uses that Iran & Russia both disagree with. Iran's oil is... well barely been scratched due to no funds. The Chinese came in last year to their Persian Gulf refinery and Russia? She is providing help with the reactor they have been building ( Persian Journal)
2007-10-25 11:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yup! You got it! The right wing conspiracy is at it again. We are funneling tax dollars to those pesky people to antagonize Turkey and Iran.
Now if we could just get Iran to hurry up with that Nuclear weapon so that we could declare WW-III!
2007-10-25 12:35:26 · answer #6 · answered by GOP2008 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe we have so few friends left in the region we don't want to lose the kurds support, maybe we want them to escalate the war into iran as you stated, or maybe we are stretched so thin we can't afford another front. either way it is a sticky situation that we would not be confronted with if not for this illegal invasion!
2007-10-25 10:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by ben j 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Exactly.
Start wars. Get as much oil as possible. Blame everyone else.
Bush's strategy seems flawless.... *rolls eyes*
2007-10-25 10:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
allot of Kurds work and shop in Iran. and have relatives there
2007-10-25 11:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because that would make sense, and after watching bush operate, your question makes too much sense.
2007-10-25 10:58:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋