A Dilemma for Turkey

Ya know, I've been thinking again (yeah, I know) and the government of Turkey has got to be highly irritated. I might go so far as to say they're really pissed.

Here the Turks have been spending decades shitting on the Kurds in their country, when their neighbor goes and makes one President!

When you think about it, the parallels between this and Blazing Saddles are getting interesting. Substitute Turkey for townspeople and Kurds for the Black Sheriff. Hmmm.

Where was I? Oh, yeah - one thing that had the Turks testicles in a tangle over Operation Iraqi Freedom was the remote possibility of the Kurds setting themselves up as a separate nation. Should that have happened the Turkish Kurds would have tried to join with it and the shit would've really hit the fan.

When you get right down to it, pretty much the entire Eastern half of Turkey is a conglomeration of leftovers from the Ottoman Empire who want abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with the Turks.

Like I keep saying, nothing ever really gets better or worse - it just gets different.