'No timetable' for Turkey assault

'No timetable' for Turkey assault
A senior Turkish official has said there is no timetable for an end to military operations against Kurdish PKK separatists in northern Iraq. Speaking after a meeting in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Ahmet Davutoglu said they would continue "until terrorist bases are eliminated".

Which of course is what the PKK want, prosperity in northern Iraq has dried up their recruitment and support – when people don’t live iun grinding poverty and can see hope, they tend not to pick up AK47s and strap bombs to themselves, and the PKK hasn’t been seen as the best career choice, so they have been angling for a Turkish incursion with all the collateral damage that brings to consolidate the people behind their flag of resistance to the occupier, which is exactly what the Turks are doing in their desire to stamp out any notion of a Kurdish homeland. All the while America sits on the sidelines, wagging their finger for the benefit of international media and an increasingly freaked out Iraqi government, but such calls by Defence Secretary Robert Gates can’t be taken seriously as the Americans run a real time intelligence command center in conjunction with the Turks and provide satellite battlefield targeting for the Turks, so while publicly admonishing, they are privately supporting. In Somalia when their bullshit attack on Nationalist Islamic forces fell over, the Americans simply backed Ethiopia as a proxy for their war and backed them to the hilt to continue the misery of the Somalian people, has America found a proxy army in the form of the Turks to keep Iraq for them?