Instability Is Becoming Unstable

Instability in the Middle East is nothing new. It is a feature of the region. So where is it going? The always/sometimes/never reliable Debka Files reports/propagandizes/misinforms on the situation in Turkey.

Both Tehran and Ankara have no doubt that the intelligence data released to them by the US military in the course of the counterinsurgency campaign is partial and limited. The complete picture remains exclusively in American hands. , Turkey sought the deployment of US Predators on its soil to fill the gap. That request was spurned until Prime Minister Erdogan backs away from his aggressive stance against Israel.

For those reasons, Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin announced Tuesday that his country would launch a cross-border ground offensive against the PKK in northern Iraq at any time.

Our military sources report that Ankara is pondering the same sort of campaign as Israel launched in Gaza against Hamas terrorism in Dec. 2008. It aims to demonstrate Turkey’s ability to defeat the Kurdish rebels without US or Israeli drones.

Israel was wrongly accused of threatening to play the Kurdish card against the Erdogan government in reprisal for those threats. The fact is that Turkey is playing the Kurdish card against itself.

Well political/military/economic stupidity is never in short supply in the Middle East. I expect we will see a flowering of same in short order. Followed by a flowering of the graves of the fallen. A kind of devilish symmetry.

Cross Posted at Power and Control


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7 responses to “Instability Is Becoming Unstable”

  1. John S. Avatar
    John S.

    The Obama administration’s instincts have all been exactly backwards regarding which dictators should stay and which should go. Pushing out Mubarak has led to this mess in Egypt, while the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing until recently about real threats to liberty and peace like Assad.

  2. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    The Obama administration’s instincts have all been exactly backwards regarding which dictators should stay and which should go.

    Precisely, and why is that? To expand on this consider the following:

    1. Why do we keep 100,000 troops tied down in Afghanistan fighting a few hundred Taliban rebels? Could it be that we are a de-facto benefactor of Iran, purposefully engaging its Sunni eastern neighbor, nuclear armed Pakistan, so that it has time to secure its own nuclear weapons, and turn its attention to building a naval and space presence?

    2. Why didn’t the Obama administration speak out when Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and other police organs of the Islamic Republic, used the Iron Heel of despotism to crush the Green Revolution, but then two years later egged on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt abandoning our ally of the 1st Gulf War?

    3. Why does the Obama administration turn a blind eye to the events in Venezuela which include Iranian arms sales, training, and infiltration?

    4. Why do we ship weapons into Mexico, arming gangs, and at the same time ignore and suppress information about Islamic infiltration there?

    In short, it only makes sense if you think the unthinkable, that Barrack Obama has more in common with, and sympathy for, revolutionary thugs like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than with serving the best interests of this country. It makes sense if you believe he couldn’t sit in a church listening to revolutionary theology for 20 years without approving of it. And likewise, that he would befriend a domestic terrorist who would ghost-write his “auto” biography.

  3. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    The signs for future domestic turmoil in this country are becoming apparent. And they are being surreptitiously directed. From the union takeover of the Wisconsin state house, to the bused in union thugs at the Port of Longview, to Hoffa’s speech with Obama on stage in Michigan, to the Black Congressional Caucus demonizing the Tea Party, it all fits a pattern.

    The pattern is one of the community organizer who agitates by rubbing resentments and fanning hostilities, and then redirects anger at the victims.

    This subject is already the talk at cocktail parties in Georgetown. Should Obama be voted out of office, they are setting up a situation for civil unrest. From one of the insiders, the former editor of The Atlantic, comes the following:

    If they defeat him, [Obama] I fear we will no longer be participating in a civil conversation, however fraught, but in a civil war.”

  4. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Oops, …the former editor of The New Republic…
    (One leftist rag is about the same as the other.)

  5. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Frank,

    I must say that my recent stuff on Drug War racism is playing right into their hands.

    None the less – right is right.

    On the union thing. Unions have cut their campaign donations to Ds by 40% to 60% in order to have money for these actions.

  6. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    I didn’t know about union campaign donations. Interesting.

    Your Drug War racism piece isn’t a problem since the NAACP already had the memo.

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