Looks like it's time to betray the Kurds again.

[Truth2Tell]

Some interesting analysis over at Missing Links:

Implications of Turk-US cooperation in the GreenZone

English-language reports haven't had anything to say about the reasons for the US cooperation/acquiescence in the recent Turkish attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan. But three (unrelated) Arab journalists seem to be thinking along the same general lines when it comes to the meaning of this Turk-US cooperation for Iraqi politics. (My italics in what follows.)

Beshir Abdel-Fattah writing in the Emirates paper AlKhaleej, details US-Turkish contacts in connection with the military operations, then talks about the sudden and unexpected withdrawal. He writes:

...speculation says an agreement was formed between Washington and Ankara to speed the Turkish withdrawal, and there are claims that Washington agreed to the Turkish military operations in the expectation of help from Turkey in the encirclement of Iran, and in reining in the growing Kurdish influence in Iraq, and in the liquidation of the Kurd-Regional administration of Masoud Barzani, or at least cutting it down to size, since it has started imposing its will on the Iraqi government, to the extent that it has become a strategic problem for Washington, particularly with the increasing role of Kurdistan in the Iraqi scene, and the obstruction of passage of the Oil and Gas Law. ...

Much much more at:

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2008/03/implications-of-turk-us-cooperation-in.html

So the U.S. pattern of abandoning the Kurds in their hours of need continues unabated. You could see this coming a mile away.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Q: When is it a good time to stab the kurds in the back?

A: It is always a good time to stab the kurds in the back.

Same as it ever was. The Kurds are and were very aware of the long history of great power betrayal. They have never expected any other resolution of the current situation.