NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300377.html?nav=hcmodule

GOOD!!! Hopefully this will ease tensions and that Turkey will not send troops across the border.

GOOD!!! Hopefully this will ease tensions and that Turkey will not send troops across the border.
Yup, we don’t want Turkey illegally invading a country, getting into an ill-advised and prolonged campaign against local militias, and slowly destabilising the region as it watches its troops getting killed.

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

Yup, we don’t want Turkey illegally invading a country, getting into an ill-advised and prolonged campaign against local militias, and slowly destabilising the region as it watches its troops getting killed.

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

I love the smell of freshly built strawmen. ;)

Yup, we don’t want Turkey illegally invading a country, getting into an ill-advised and prolonged campaign against local militias, and slowly destabilising the region as it watches its troops getting killed.

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

You know what I don't like the smell of? Your arrogant self-righteous attitude. That is of course unless you would like to see Turkey bring more bloodshed and violence to the region.

I love the smell of freshly built strawmen. ;)
If I was attacking Corneliu, then perhaps it would be a strawman, as he didn’t present such an argument. However, as I was attacking the hypocritical attitude of Washington (which, in hindsight, I should have made more clear in my post) in its refusal to support Turkey when it has, (a) done the exact same actions itself, and (b) supported countries in the same circumstances; Israel’s attacks on Libya and Syria, for example.

I fail to see the strawman.

You know what I don’t like the smell of? Your arrogant self-righteous attitude. That is of course unless you would like to see Turkey bring more bloodshed and violence to the region.
Arrogant, self-righteous attitude? I fail to see where I have elevated myself above the actions of the Turkish or American states, or indeed how pointing out hypocrisy is somehow ‘arrogant’.

My views on the hypocrisy of the American administration, in conjunction with the Iraqi state, have nothing to do with my support, or lack of, for Turkey’s campaign against Kurdish militant nationalists.

I am merely pointing out faulty reasoning, not attempting to provide a cure-all for the Middle East.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300377.html?nav=hcmodule

GOOD!!! Hopefully this will ease tensions and that Turkey will not send troops across the border.


Of course the fact that they can't even establish their authority in the capital, let alone all the way up by the border doesn't seem to have occurred to you.......

Aye, fantastic, they'll make some half-arsed effort and the Turkish will clear out the whole of Northern Iraq. Woop tee doo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300377.html?nav=hcmodule

GOOD!!! Hopefully this will ease tensions and that Turkey will not send troops across the border.
However, this may cause a further erosion of Kurds backing the US occupation of Iraq.