Quote of the year: Paul Wolfowitz
This from HellenicNews.com (Via Groong):
On July 14, 2002, Wolfowitz in a CNN Turkey interview stated:
“I think a real test of whether a country is a democracy is how it treats its minorities. And actually it’s one of the things that impress (sic) me about Turkish history-the way Turkey treats its own minorities.”
It’s hardly surprising to hear such a statement from Wolfowitz, and shows very well the way the current US government views the rest of the world.
Turkey = NATO while Armenians, Kurds, and Greeks equal nothing of real value. No oil, no value.
Is he mad or joking? There is no conceivable sane explanation for saying something that is obvious untrue. It’s the exact ****ing opposite with Turkish history. I suppose he’s just doing the traditional buttering-up-Turkey-routine. Why do we ever do that anyway? Oh, rigth, so that Turkey doesn’t go off and does something, like, refuse Coalition troops to attack Iraq from the north, or . . . A realpolitikal charade that doesn’t even make realpolitikal sense.
PS: As a minor aside, the Kurds have loads of oil. The majority of Iraq’s oil is in the Kurdish bit. It’s just not under sovereign Kurdish control.
Comment by timmyhawk — 7/28/2004 @ 10:26 pm
You are of course right about the Kurds and oil.
This is precisely why the Turks don’t want the Kurds in northern Iraq to have any power, because they know they will have the revenue from oil to make their “state” viable.
Comment by Matt — 7/29/2004 @ 11:29 am