Bush Swaps Turkey for Iran
The US has dropped Turkey, a NATO member, as a strategic partner in the Middle East in favor of Iran. The only good aspect of this Bush Administration decision is that it has ended the confusion over US policies. The next step for the Bush Administration will be to ease US trade restrictions so that US companies can compete for business in Iran. The pro-Iran faction at State and Defense is overjoyed. The practical effect of this pro-Iran shift in US policy is that the US is preparing to partition Iraq, as desired by Iran and its Kurdish allies. Evidence of this pro-Iran shift in US policy is as follows. First, the US Congress remains strongly anti-Turkey. Speaker Pelosi would not even meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Gul during his visit to the US this week. Also, Congress is still determined to pass the resolution condemning Turkey's genocide against the Armenians. Passage of this resolution would seriously set back US-Turkish relations.
Second, in a major insult to Turkey, the US refuses to postpone the December 2007 referendum in Kirkuk that will solidify Kurdish control in Kirkuk. This US support for Kirkuk's referendum is tantamount to a US declaration of war against Turkey, as well as against Iraq's Sunni population and the Arab states in general. Iraq's resistance movements -- both Sunni and Shi'ite -- will be strengthened.
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