As I tried to dig further on the ‘military thinking’ before and after the news of an incursion into Iraq surfaced, I bumped into an unexpected address: Russia.
It’s bizarre: According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, there are no plans for a parliamentary resolution that would allow a military incursion into northern Iraq. Gordon Johndroe, […]
Do some business conglomerates have the habit of boasting about their ‘deep connections’ with the military establishment by showing up at posh restaurants with the retired generals on their payroll?
The cover story in the Turkish language version of this month’s Forbes magazine features a list of retired generals who sit (or sat) in the […]
The debate over a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq is as pointless as an incursion itself.
“Mission incursion-into-Iraq” would be tantamount to “mission whoever-dares-loses”; hence its pointless. No doubt, an incursion is part of the military plan against Kurdish terror, but only one of several dozens of different contingency plans on that matter. Its “visibility” […]
The Kurds should spend more, perhaps several hundred million dollars, not just one million, ‘to buy’ a love affair with the ordinary Americans.
Well, he probably was not; but this is the kind of conclusion American lobbyists who are on Kurdish payroll are coming close to. With some more funding going to these extremely creative […]
‘If this is the price of freedom, I say thank you but no,’ says Syrian dissident Khaleed. ‘I prefer the fascist rule with my children safely going to school to democracy and one of them not returning from school one day.’
Iraq, these days, is not only about $500 billion-1 trillion American money spent for […]