BS rules at NYT

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

A regular of the Mossad chorus line, Safire sprinkles his saber-rattling
rhetoric and military porn with some unadulterated horse manure:
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January 31, 2002
'To Fight Freedom's Fight'
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/opinion/31SAFI.html?pagewanted=print
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Saber-rattling:
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WASHINGTON -- When a dramatist places a gun on the table in the first act,
the astute playgoer knows that the weapon will be used before the drama
ends.

In his State of the Union address, President Bush warned three nations
sponsoring terror — North Korea, Iran and Iraq — that the U.S. "will not
permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's
most destructive weapons."

That means he has decided to destroy the destructive potential of the most
dangerous states before any of them can credibly threaten to wipe out a U.S.
city or infect our nation with an epidemic. Bush's refusal "to leave terror
states unchecked" leaves only secondary decisions: when and how to attack
"the axis of evil" (an apt allusion to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis of World
War II).
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Military porn:
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(...)Our B-52's could then take out Kim Jong Il's key nuclear bomb-making
sites(...)
(...)Should intelligence reveal a nuclear danger from Tehran coming
onstream, however, a surgical airstrike would be called for. (...)
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more porn and horse scat:
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(...)Supply arms and money to 70,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and a
lesser Shiite force in the south, covering both with Predator surveillance
and tactical U.S. air support.

In Phase II, I'll bet it was recently agreed in Washington that Turkish tank
brigades and U.S. Special Ops troops will together thrust down to Baghdad.
Saddam will join Osama and Mullah Omar in hiding. Iraqis, cheering their
liberators, will lead the Arab world toward democracy. (...)
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Apparently Mossad doesn't care too much how brain-dead its columnists are
since the US public is prepared to swallow anything. The Turkish army has
fought the Kurds for 15 years and is adamantly opposed to any Iraqi
operation even if the US guarantees it won't use the Kurds (the only
alternative being a massive US land invasion, which is a non-starter). There
is no way that the US is going to arm the Kurds as long as they are sitting
next door to Turkey. If Turkish tanks do go in, it won't be against Saddam
but against the Kurds.  The Turkish army also has no intention whatsoever of
occupying Iraqi territory, being in enough hot water as it is over Cyprus.
That's what was "recently agreed in Washington". Papa Bush made a similar
proposal before Desert Storm and rumor has it that Turkish PM Ozal wanted to
jump on it to grab the Mossul oil fields. Whether this is true or not, one
thing is certain: The army chief of staff vehemently opposed such a plan and
resigned. So even if the rest of the world weren't totally against it, there
is one immovable object between Shrubya and Iraq that the Shrub can't afford
to blow up even if he could: Turkey.

Hakki