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| Jules Crittenden: NYT laments that Bush destroyed "balance of oppression" in Kurdish territory |
| 2007-10-24 |
First Osama. Now the NYT ed board:The news out of Iraq just keeps getting worse. You'd think, like Osama, whose views NYT ed board generally shares on Iraq, they're talking about their dismay over the fact that the Americans, the Iraqi government and the Iraqi people are finally prevailing over terrorism, mass murder, chaos. Not at all. NYT ed board is talking about business as usual in northern Iraq/southeastern Turkey. Kurds and Turks fighting with each other across the Iraqi border, as they were doing long before the United States invaded Iraq. . . . What crime did Bush commit in Kurdistan? Stratfor lays it out. He destroyed the balance of oppression. Stratfor notes that the Kurds were once (more or less*) equally oppressed in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq, and that as Saddam was put into the sanctions box after 1991, Turkey was compelled to impose a militarized buffer zone. Stratfor examines why the PKK is provoking Turkey now: People tend to talk about the Kurds as a single national group -- and, linguistically and religiously, they are. But history and current reality have divided them in ways that have generated serious differences in interest and ideology. The territory they occupy is divided among several countries, including Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. And for most of the 20th century, Kurds in all of those states were equally oppressed. In other words, the bad thing the US did was to liberate the Iraqui Kurds! If we'd only kept them opporessed, things would be so much better. Coming in tomorrow's NYT: why freeing the Marsh Arabs and restoring the ecosystem was another Bush/neocon blunder. Footnote in original: * Stratfor states "for most of the 20th century, Kurds in all of those states were equally oppressed." It's notable that immediately prior to international intervention in Iraqi affairs in the Gulf War, Saddam was doing his damndest to outpace the competition with poison gas attacks on Kurdish villages. By that measure, the current difficulties are minor, however, NYT ed board has already established that it prefers genocide to the difficulties and frustrations of instituting free, stable and secure societies in troubled regions. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 P2K: Perfect. Judecca. Talk about pigeon-holing them. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-10-24 16:22 |
| #3 It never ceases to amaze me how far up their a$$es the NYT ed board has stuck their heads. No wonder everything is always so dark and gloomy to them. |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2007-10-24 13:59 |
| #2 The Kurds are also different because more often than not they act like adults, not overtired oversugared toddlers. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-10-24 11:54 |
| #1 NYT ed board has already established that it prefers genocide to the difficulties and frustrations of instituting free, stable and secure societies in troubled regions I'll have to consult Dante to determine which circle of hell is awaiting the NYT ed board. However, I suspect, based upon their other acts, its probably the ninth, zone four. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-24 09:34 |