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| Is Erbil possible replacement for Incirlik as Turkish-US tensions flare over S-400? |
| 2019-07-13 |
| [Rudaw] Gauging the US capital's perspective of developments affecting the Kurdistan Region and its neighbors, Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pregent offered insight on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... -ally ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... acquiring a Russian-made missile system, the possibility of the United States further utilizing the Kurdistan Region in lieu of Incirlik, and the growing influence of the Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 It wouldn't have to be a hard partition with complete independence. Sovereignty backed up by a US Air Force base would be enough to ensure Kurdish independence + US domination of the skies. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-13 23:16 |
| #6 Lex - that had Huge Implicationsâ„¢ and got back into western geo-dictating nation-state boundaries. Joe was wrong again. If it works for the locals, they have to ACCEPT it, not having it imposed by outsiders |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-07-13 20:23 |
| #5 #1 The best thing we could have done in post-Saddam Iraq would have been to partition it, with Kurdistan becoming an independent US ally with a forward US deployment there. --Lex Without declaring war on Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey at the same time? Unfortunately an ambition not practical, then or now.... |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-07-13 18:01 |
| #4 Well, we withdrew all the nukes from Incirlik, except for that one.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-07-13 10:36 |
| #3 I am amazed that wasn't done right after the liberation of Iraq: Both downgrade Incirlik and replace it with Erbil. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2019-07-13 10:27 |
| #2 There is already a US presence at the huge base north of Irbil. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-07-13 08:13 |
| #1 The best thing we could have done in post-Saddam Iraq would have been to partition it, with Kurdistan becoming an independent US ally with a forward US deployment there. I know Biden isn't thought highly of on these threads but if memory serves, Biden actually did argue strongly for just such a strategy. Too bad he wasn't in charge instead of 0. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-13 01:00 |