Sometimes I think I live in Alice in Wonderland land.
Five years ago the U.S. preemptively invaded a sovereign country to insure that the head poohbah did not sell his oil to some other, unworthy country. In that five years, we have destroyed much of the infrastructure of that country. The terrorist group known as al-Qaida, which was not in Iraq prior to our invasion, is now using Iraq as a staging ground for terrorist operations against our soldiers and the Iraqis. According to some counts, over one million Iraqis have been killed since our preemptive invasion. Christians in Iraq are now in more danger than they have ever been and many have fled the country. The Iraqi government is controlled by the Shia Muslims and is encouraging closer relations with Iran, the country our prezident calls "an axis of evil." Most Iraqis blame the U.S. for the sorry state of affairs in Iraq and want the Americans to leave; the sooner the better.
Turkey has a problem with the Kurds (the third of the major Iraqi ethnic groupings). Kurdish guerrillas are giving Turkey a difficult time. Turkey has instigated military actions against the Kurds which has necessitated crossing the border into northern Iraq.
The government of Iraq has called for Turkey to quit these incursions immediately.
Now, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has opened his mouth. Last Wednesday, he said that Turkey should limit its offensive against these Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq to as few days as possible and get out of Iraq completely.
Gates claims that Turkey's crossing the border to chase the Kurds violates Iraq's sovereignty!
Do you think our defense secretary has become the laughingstock of the world?
Turkey is violating Iraq's sovereignty?
Is this not the pot calling the kettle black?
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