What is plan B?

Submitted by Art K. (United States), Oct 27, 2009 at 20:51

In March 2003, Turkey refused airspace and basing rights to U.S. warplanes for strikes against Iraq unless the U.S. allowed it to invade northern Iraq and declare war on its Kurdish minority, the same one that Saddam Hussein dropped chemical weapons on which wiped out many villages. The Turks no doubt feel the time is right to play their oil-pipeline and water cards. Water for parts of Iran and Iraq go Turkey and new oil pipelines now also go through Turkey. They obviously were never "allies," but just patient opportunists. Since 1948, the U.S. has had only one real ally in the Middle East when oil is not part of the equation.

So now we have a former Ottoman Empire teaming up with an ancient Persian Empire and Assyrian Empire and all tentatively protected by a reforming Russian Empire. In the meantime, Europe, which should be ringing alarm bells at another risk to their energy supplies is no doubt scheming about what new "crimes" against humanity it can allege against a tiny Israel instead of figuring out how it can help the U.S. protect the Persian Gulf. If the U.S. has some kind of contingency plan, Obama and Clinton are not letting on.

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