Kurdish Terrorists Need to Be Wiped Out!

[Regarding John Deere's guest column of August 29, 2000, "License to Kill Kurds":]

Your narrow-minded, one-sided viewpoint is appalling. The Kurdish terrorists have been terrorizing the Turkish populace for years. Specifically, the Turkish women and children because they, like any other world class terrorist group, gain more media attention this way.

I'm not Turkish, nor am I a Muslim, but I lived in that country for three years and speak both their languages fluently. I've seen firsthand what Kurdish terrorists have done in Turkey.

The Kurds are doing this because they want their own independent country of "Kurdistan." They have been receiving financial support for years from their wealthy Armenian and Greek counterparts. For added monies, they get large revenues from their mass escort of asylum seekers to European and Mediterranean countries.

Because of the Kurdish terrorists using coward-like terrorist techniques against the Turks, the Turks fully deserve the right for retribution using any means possible. (A common tactic: A Kurdish terrorist kicks down a front door to a Turkish family's house and tosses a grenade in their living room full of 7 young children watching TV.... This is not a commercial, or TV, this thing is real. Kurdish terrorists need to be wiped out!)

Have you ever heard of Turkish terrorists entering northern Iraq to kill Kurdish civilians? I haven't either.

~ M.P, U.S. Military Retired, Special Forces, Three Years Combat Service Time/21, Desert Storm, Bosnia

The "Backtalk" editor replies:

You may be neither Turkish nor Muslim, but you are a former employee of an organization (the United States Government) that arms and funds the Turkish military, so you can hardly be considered a dispassionate observer.

Your descriptions of the Kurdish rebellion eerily resemble descriptions of the Albanian rebellion(s): terrorism, aid from expatriates, criminality, and desire for independence. Yet the U.S. Government funds the extermination of the former and aids the latter. When the U.S. Government stops doing both, maybe Antiwar.com will stop writing about Turkey.

And, yes, we have heard of Turkish terrorists killing Kurdish civilians in in Northern Iraq.

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Advocacy Groups

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~ JC

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Fair Play

Regarding [the letter] “Logical Thinking” ... (September 1) [in which A. Ewing states that]:

“We may regret ... our encouraging the Chinese to become democratic. They consist of 1/5 of the population in the world, and democracy is based on majority rule. I can see the day when we go to the Internet message boards and we will be out-shouted by them. Our top priority should be education for the Chinese people in logical thinking and a sense of fair play”

Right now the Chinese don’t even know what kind of rubbish the Yankee spin machine is churning out every day, demonizing them as the new Yellow Peril that would engulf the world in 5 years time! They don’t understand why they get such hostile stares from ordinary Yanks, who yell at them, “Why don’t you go back to where you belong?” It's like being sentenced to death in a kangaroo court without so much as a translator to tell you what's going on. Uncle Sam won the propaganda war hands down -- by default. The day Chinese master enough English to be able to talk back to the accuser in international forums and defend themselves against the US smear machine, that would be real fair play, wouldn’t it?

~ Deng Xi Chang

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A Simple Paradigm

For some time, it has occurred to me that almost the entire American foreign policy could be understood as the perpetual unfolding of a very simple paradigm.

The American government supports some tin pot dictator or terrorist organization in order to undermine or destabilize the current number one enemy (usually last year's "good guy"). Then, one of two things happen:

Some examples of #2 include:

I suspect the entire 150-year-long list would make an interesting story....

...Perhaps one of the authors at Antiwar.com would ... take it on.

~ Paul Miniato, The Portal to Freedom

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