"The PKK and Iraq's Kurds
Monday I wrote about a plan by the Bush administration-as revealed in a Bob Novak column-to attack the PKK, the Kurdish terrorist organization that is believed to be launching attacks into Turkey from safe havens in Kurdish Iraq. Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings wrote about it too, and takes a different view of the matter:
Working with Turkish special forces to get the PKK out of Iraqi Kurdistan would not necessarily be a bad idea.
The one thing we should be trying as hard as we can to avoid is a Turkish invasion of Iraq. That would be a genuine, full-bore catastrophe. (I'm using "invasion" here to mean an invasion by substantial Turkish forces, as opposed to an incursion by special operations forces or something.) And Turkey could well invade. It has forces massed on the border. It has been making threats for months."
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