Thursday March 15, 2012

I've Been Thinking:

Turkish planes flew into Iraq and dropped bombs on three regions. It happened late Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning. The targets were Kurdish separatist movement centers and bases.

This is an ongoing story, one that we do not see or hear much about.

The Kurds want their own state. They believe that part of that state should include sections of Turkey so to that end, the Kurds actively strike at Turkish targets. It emphasizes their point.

The Turks respond by attacking Kurdish centers. Part of the attack strategy of the Turks against the Kurds is to get at their support system in Iraq.

In Iraq the Kurds are almost totally autonomous. They live in predominately Kurdish regions, they have excellent oil resources and their province is relatively very quiet and peaceful. They are almost totally independent of Iraq - except that the Kurdish province is in the new country of Iraq.

Despite their autonomy in Iraq, the Kurds still want an independent country. Turkey disagrees.

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