Bush decides to topple Saddam

[C. G. Estabrook]

On the principle that the military always fights the last war, we can
assume that there are those in Washington pressing for an "Afghan
solution" to the problem of Iraq.  There the formula was US air power plus
Northern Alliance troops.  US air power is already in place in regard to
Iraq, but who's to play the Northern Alliance role?  The Kurds are no
match even for Saddam's reduced military, and the CIA retreads of the
Iraqi National Congress have no military at all.  But there is an obvious
candidate -- America's New Best Friend in the region, Turkey.  Flush with
arms from the Clinton Administration and successfully bloodied in the most
extensive ethnic cleansing of the 1990s in their own southeast, the Turks
would be glad to establish "enduring freedom" in Iraq.  When the smoke
clears and killing is done, Turkey could have a piece of Iraq, thus
occupying all of Kurdistan (and some oil), while a INC Karzai could be
found for Baghdad.  Q.E.D.  --CGE