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I must wonder if, considering the our government's status in Iraq--which is an independent and sovereign nation, as we all know—as protector of that country’s people and government, why we didn’t launch interception aircraft when Turkey attacked the Northern Kurdish areas. Would we have allowed Iranian aircraft to do the same? I cannot but assume we had warning of the attack and, in effect, condoned it to placate our “allies” in Turkey. Perhaps they were merely acting as our surrogate force since we also consider the PKK to be a terrorist group. But doesn’t it seem politically sensitive that we allow a foreign power (Turkey) to attack a sovereign nation under our protection (Iraq), with the full knowledge that such an attack will, by its very nature (high speed fighter-bombers at night), result in “collateral damage”—i.e. civilian casualties? Is life getting to be so cheap in our dealings with Iraq that we’d allow this without a military response?
