Quickhits
Another Kurdish bombing inside Turkey kills 7. How long can we expect the Turks to just sit by while the Kurds repeatedly attack? BBC reports at least five of the dead are children.
(Reuters) The Sudanese government is bombing civilians in Darfur.
(WaPo or AP) The NSA issued "a set of administration approved, unclassified talking points for the members to use" promoting its warrantless eavesdropping program. That's a no no. The WaPo version has some of the actual talking points.
(AP) The port security bill may be dead because the Republicans are objecting to Democratic amendments. The Democrats are asking for such unreasonable things as requiring bus lines, train lines, and chemical plants to implement security measures as well as the implementation of ALL of the 9/11 commission's recommendations. How dare they!!
(AP) The Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee don't want to subpoena Duke Cunningham to testify in an investigation of just what Duke Cunningham did.
(Reuters) The Sudanese government is bombing civilians in Darfur.
(WaPo or AP) The NSA issued "a set of administration approved, unclassified talking points for the members to use" promoting its warrantless eavesdropping program. That's a no no. The WaPo version has some of the actual talking points.
(AP) The port security bill may be dead because the Republicans are objecting to Democratic amendments. The Democrats are asking for such unreasonable things as requiring bus lines, train lines, and chemical plants to implement security measures as well as the implementation of ALL of the 9/11 commission's recommendations. How dare they!!
(AP) The Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee don't want to subpoena Duke Cunningham to testify in an investigation of just what Duke Cunningham did.
posted by mikevotes at
9:36 PM
2 Comments:
I've been telling people for years that we're not paying enough attention to Turkey. It's the only secular Islamic democracy and we've not been there for them. We ignored the early warning signs back in '03 when they denied US access for a northern front into Iraq. We've probably retaliated in subtle political ways as payback.
And by "we" I mean BushCo.
Keep your eye on Turkey. It could be a flash-point in the near future.
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-epm, at 10:22 PM
Agree completely.
Can you imagine a country absorbing multiple lethal terror bombings in a month, knowing that the Kurds in Iraq are behind it, and not doing anything about it?
(And I would add another older front of insult in the US's early attempts to get Turkey into the EU, only to abandon the effort leaving the Turks in a strange limbo.)
Mike
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mikevotes, at 10:27 PM
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