Kurds triangulated … again
by hakmao, 24 December 2007
Even a 2007 calendar will be correct in 2035 and 2063:
You probably didn’t know about this: it hasn’t been a prominent issue in the Left press, and hasn’t gotten much coverage in the mainstream papers either. But for those of you who didn’t know, the Turkish airforce has been bombing Kurdistan for the past two days. Remarkable that nothing much has been said about it by the “left” (one can only imagine what would be said if the jets were flying from Israel rather than Turkey), but there we have it […] Why is it that people who will go charging into political battle behind so many groups in that region, will not do so for one of the most significant stateless nations in the world–even when it finds itself under attack from a regional superpower and NATO member?
What with the manoeuvres of the Western powers over the Treaty of Sèvres, and the more recent imperialism of the Kurds’ variously theocratic or fascist/militarist ‘host’ nations–and ‘anti-imperialist’ pin-ups du jour–selling-out the Kurdish people is an Olympic sport. Could it be that rights to self-determination are not absolute, but contingent on programmatic exactitudes–striking the correct anti-US poses and ritual denunciations of that wellspring of ineffable and malevolent power, the ‘Zionist entity’?
Monday 24 December 2007 at 21:26
“Remarkable that nothing much has been said about it by the “left” ”
There is probably a barely contained glee on the part of this so-called “Left” that the Kurds are getting nothing but their comeuppance. They should have known better than to take full advantage of their deliverance from Saddam.
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 0:30
It isn’t the ‘left’ — whatever the fuck that means — who are selling out the Kurdish people. It’s the fucking bastards (especially) who run the show in Turkey and the US of fucking A. The US government and the British government moreover, have both been supporting the PJAK, the Iranian branch of PKK, while giving aid and support to the Islamist-lite scumbags of Turkey’s military in killing Kurdish people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/10/wkurds110.xml
This whole PKK crapolla is nothing but a piece of shit excuse on the part of the Turk generals to stamp on Kurdish attempts to reclaim their own history — all done with the collusion of ‘western powers’ of course.
Triangulation or strangulation — all amounts to the same.
PS. Comments on the Shiraz post by that stupid moralist prick Modernity and that vile, right wing loony Macferson — only to be expected.
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 12:02
[baloney from right wing prick deleted. You’re banned from here anyway you stupid fucking arselicking cunt].
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 12:20
[right wing prick deleted]
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 14:13
Alec’s alone in his bedsit once again …
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 14:32
So what do the Kurds themselves think about the situation? Michael Totten has been asking them.
Tuesday 25 December 2007 at 15:37
“The difference between us and the Palestinians is that we learn from our mistakes.”
This is the encasulation of wisdom, by Jove!
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 3:31
Stop being ridiculous Francis. That is not the point and misses what is really going on and you (should) know it (and shame on you if you don’t).
Turkey bombing Iraqi Kurdistan in order to ‘get at’ the PKK makes as much sense as the US bombing Cambodia and Laos on the quiet to ‘get at’ the NVA. For another thing — the Turkish action doesn’t even work — a point admitted by the stupid prick they have as a prime minister — but who is still going along with it because he has to keep his generals ‘on side’ or face a possible coup.
The Turkish aggression has nothing to do with any supposed ‘threat’ of the PKK and has everything to do with appeasing the Turkish military and disgusting Turkish racism directed against the Kurds, which is endemic in Turkey — populist shit and piss holds sway in Turkey — racism is oh so modern in that neck of the woods you know…
PS. More stuff I could say if it wasn’t xmas…am trying to keep it civil don’t you know.
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 4:07
For the first, and perhaps last, time I’m in agreement with the appealing tosser Will.
Turkish bombing won’t stop the attacks it’s intended to - it’s just a stupidly counterproductive measure meant to shore up support on the home front.
The Turks should stop this idiotic adventure immediately, before it balloons into something even worse.
[Flying Pissant demonstrates all the time keeping properties of a stopped clock]
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 4:18
Fuck me. I may leave a comment untouched by flying Pissant.
Now I question myself so I do.
What say you people? Delete the fucker or let its deposit remain?
For once I leave this open to you pricks to decide.
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 14:53
As a relative new comer to these blogs, I don’t know what is the head and front of flying Pissant’s offending, so I can’t make a considered opinion.
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 15:18
Scrawls trolling graffiti consisting of nothing but distortions, untruths, projections and hypocrisy.
Wednesday 26 December 2007 at 17:15
Well, then, the only course of action is that of the QUEEN OF HEARTS, who “had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. `Off with his head!’ she said, without even looking round.
`I’ll fetch the executioner myself,’ said the King eagerly, and he hurried off.”