January 9, 2004
GROWING KURDISTAN:
Assad in Ankara (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7, 2004)
Syria has traditionally dreaded any warming of relations between Israel and Turkey. Budding cooperation between its two neighbors had significantly intensified its ruler Bashar Assad's sense of claustrophobia. He faces the mounting prospect of American sanctions, his country's economy is in shambles, and neighboring dictator Saddam Hussein fell ignominiously. That Assad needs a breather is indisputable, but why should Turkey give him one?Assad astutely knew just which card to play – solidarity with Turkey on the Kurdish issue.
Which raises a point--we should begin the destabilization of the Ba'athist regime in Syria by recognizing its Kurdish North East as part of the new Kurdistan. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 9, 2004 8:11 PM
Comments
Works for me!
Posted by: Genecis at January 9, 2004 8:52 PMWorks for me!
Posted by: Genecis at January 9, 2004 8:53 PMThe Kurds represent our worst case exit strategy in the Middle East. If everything else goes south then their natural impulse for a nation of their own will trump the Iraquis, the Irainains. and our sometimes "friends" the Turks,
Posted by: Earl Sutherland at January 10, 2004 10:39 PM