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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Lord
One life is the same as 245,000,000 lives...
you can agree or not but if one of my brothers is suffering you be well assured i will do ANYTHING to save him or her. period. end of story. |
thats what you SHOULD do dued. Thats normal but we have lost a lot of ppl including civilians.
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The Next Front
Pressure is building on Ankara to deal more harshly with cross-
border terrorist attacks from Iraq.
July 31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in
response to attacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W.
Bush called it "self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over
the last week lost 15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-
ratist Kurds from neighboring Iraq? Many Turkish leaders are
pressing for cross-border tactical air assaults on the guerrillas.
But Bush, fearing yet another escalation of the Middle East's
violence, urged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold
off. "The message was, unilateral action isn't going to be helpful,"
says a senior U.S. official, describing the 15-minute phone
conversation. "The president asked for patience."
And so Turkish forces are holding fast—for now—in deference to their
half-century alliance with the United States. But that patience is
bound to be challenged, probably sooner than later. Domestic
political pressures are building to take a leaf from Israel's book
and hit back at the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Work-ers' Party, or
PKK. Since the beginning of the year, attacks on Turkish military
garrisons and police stations have esca-lated across the country's
southeast, along with random shootings, bombings and protests—many
of them, authorities suspect, organized in Iraq. Already the Turkish
military has laid detailed plans for possible helicopter-and-
commando assaults, government sources tell NEWSWEEK. Meanwhile,
Ankara's frustration with Washington has grown palpable. For all the
Bush administration's repeated promises to crack down on the PKK,
little if anything has happened. With elections coming next year,
Erdogan could be pardoned for soon concluding that his forbearance
might prove politically dangerous. "Moderate, liberal people in
Turkey are becoming increasingly anti-American," warns Turkey's
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul. "That isn't good."
Erdogan has built a career on skillfully riding populist waves, and
he's not going to miss this one. On the one hand, he recognizes the
importance of maintaining good relations with America, if only to
foil critics who lambaste him for being too Islamist. On the other,
popular anger at the PKK is getting explosive. At the funeral of a
murdered soldier in Izmir last week, crowds destroyed wreaths sent
by Erdogan's Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu and the city's
governor, Oguz Kaan Koksal. Some mourners chanted slogans accusing
the government of cooperating with the PKK. And when a group of 60
human-rights activists were arrested in the resort of Kiyikoy on
suspicion of being PKK sympathizers last week, locals attacked the
detainees with stones and iron bars.
The Turkish press has been baying for action, with even the solidly
pro-American Turkish Daily News railing in an editorial that "Turkey
is no banana republic that can leave its security to the mercy of
others." Another editorial posed the question more directly. "Why is
it that Israel has the right to 'self-defense'," the paper
asked, "and not Turkey." The country's usually fractious
parliamentary opposition, in a rare moment of unity, called for
active intervention. "Opposition," says True Path Party leader
Mehmet Agar, "ends at Habur"—Turkey's border crossing with Ira
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13990129/site/newsweek/
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