Lagniappe

 

Scott Sullivan:
US air strikes on PKK and IRGC

 

The US is appeasing Iran and Iran’s PKK allies while preparing to confront Turkey. Such is the inescapable conclusion following Erdogan-Bush Summit.

A careful assessment of the Erdogan-Bush summit indicates that Bush remains hostile to Turkey and sympathetic to the PKK-Iran Axis that seeks to partition Iraq. Bush made only two modest assistance offers to Turkey. Each offer raised more questions than answers.

First, Bush repeated his offer to share intelligence with Turkey pertaining to PKK attacks against Turkey. Bush’s offer implies that the US has been withholding such intelligence from Turkey until now despite US obligations within NATO and despite bilateral counterterrorism agreements to share such intelligence with Turkey.

Second, published reports refer to the establishment of coordinating mechanism between the US and Turkey for conducting joint operations against the PKK.

In reality, the US-Turkish coordinating mechanism is no more than a hotline, or more accurately a US phone number. In other words, Turkey received the brush-off from the US. As they say in Hollywood, “don’t call me, I’ll call you.

The extent of the US brush-off of Turkey became evident when General Petraeus was named as the US point of contact. For the Turkish military, GEN Petraeus is pro-Kurdish. He approved without question the PKK military buildup in northern Iraq. He also approved granting the Kurdish peshmerga the status of an independent military force that is answerable only to Kurdish president Barzani.

In addition to a long record of collaboration with the Kurds, GEN Petraeus has a long record of collaboration with Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their front groups in Iraq such as the Badr Brigade, who are conducting terrorist attacks on US forces in Iraq. Indeed, GEN Petraeus has made the Badr Brigade his primary military partner in Iraq.

In fact, just two days ago GEN Petraeus announced that he would soon release nine of the 20 IRGC personnel now in US custody.

Let’s get to the point. The US should not be releasing IRGC personnel. The US should be conducting mass arrests of IRGC personnel and deporting them to Iran.

The US decision to release the IRGC personnel represents nothing more than US appeasement of Iran despite Iran’s plan to support the PKK and to partition Iraq with the PKK at the first available opportunity. For details on Iranian plans to partition Iraq, see the interview ‘Iraq’s al-Hakim Discusses proposed South Central Federation,” Aaswat.com, 23 October 07. Hakim is an Iranian puppet and is the US’s top political partner in Iraq.

To put the issue another way, just three weeks ago Bll Kristol stated the US was at war with Iran in Iraq. Kristol called for US airstrikes against IRGC training camps in Iran for Iraqi volunteers. Meanwhile, other US voices were suggesting US airstrikes against the PKK in northern Iraq.

In the real world, the US military is doing just the opposite. The US is essentially providing air cover for PKK and IRGC operations against Turkey and other states.

In sum, President Bush has convinced the world that he wants war with Iran. Not true. The US wants and is preparing for war with Turkey on behalf of the PKK, Barzani and Talabani. Here is an appeal to Bill Kristol. You must call upon President Bush to attack the PKK and the IRGC, not protect the PKK and IRGC!

Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views. Petroleumworld does not necessarily share these views.

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Petroleumworld News 11/13/07

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