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Hello Mike - 

MM>> Ahhh! Viet Nam, the leftovers of WWII when President
MM>> Roosevelt closed the books on WWII prematurely, just as
MM>> the Gulf War was closed prematurely by the elder President
MM>> Bush. 

CA>> Yes, it did seem the Gulf War ended abruptly with no
CA>> resolution of any of the issues that initiated it. 

MR> I recently had an insight into the reasons why the war
MR> ended so abruptly. Perhaps it may be my mistaken
MR> understanding however. The reason is simply because of
MR> Turkey. If you remember the USA had encouraged the northern
MR> Kurds to revolt but then when the time came the USA did not
MR> lift a finger to help. 

I don't remember that actually, I'm not really well informed
about 'world events'. I was educated by a Hungarian immigrant
to the fiasco of our encouraging them to revolt and then not
showing up. Millions were slaughtered and they've never
forgotten nor forgiven us for doing that to them. 

I seem to recall the "Bay of Pigs" was a similar incident. This
seems to be a repeating scenario? 

MR> Turns out that Turkey had been afraid that if Iraq's
MR> northern Kurds had created an independent state that the
MR> Turkish majority Kurd provinces would have likely joined.
MR> AND Since the USA cherishes its airforce bases in Turkey,
MR> it isn't inconceivable that the USA had to make a deal with
MR> the devil to keep those bases. 

Again I am forced to demonstrate my ignorance but I do know the
standard of living in Turkey is _higher_ than in the USA and I
have assumed this was because of oil? I don't really know why
Turkey has as much money as it does and I've been too lazy to
find out. 

Other than a lust for Turkish oil or control over oil or
something like that I cannot imagine why we would need a
prescence in Turkey? 

MR> Hence about 150,000 northern Kurds in Iraq were gassed and
MR> massacred by Saddam Hussein. Not entirely the USA's fault
MR> but it isn't entirely blameless either. In pragmatic terms,
MR> the USA needed Hussein to keep the factions in Iraq under
MR> control, thus the war was stopped short of Baghdad. I could
MR> be wrong... 

I don't find any of that too difficult to imagine. 

I am of the opinion that if Hitler had made WWII more
profitable for American businesses we would've allowed him to
eliminate the jews, the homosexuals, and the masons and never
recorded it in any of our text books. I was told that Hitler
was very determined that the war would not become a 'profit
center' for big business. One of his mistakes. 

I have no idea if this is in any way relevant to anything but
I was shocked recently to find that the second largest group
accessing my webpages was in Turkey.  I would've never guessed
but that's what the server software tells me?

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