After weeks of hard bargaining and delay, Turkey signaled today that it is willing to allow U.S. troops to use bases on Turkish soil to open a northern front against Iraq in exchange for billions of dollars in aid and help for billions more in loans.
And in return, I guess that we screw the Kurds again, after all is said and done in Iraq. So we have yet another group of nascent America-haters to deal with at some point down the road because we once again did the politically expedient thing for all the wrong reasons. Going to war in Iraq being just one of them, giving the Turkish Government everything they want being another.
How many more times do we have to allow the neocons to endanger our long-term security with their short-sighted thinking? I guess until January of 2005.
