Pogroms by Any Other Name

Unless you were looking you might have missed the fact that last weekend Turkey launched a large-scale invasion of Northern Iraq.

Kurds being a long time irritant to the last vestige of the Ottoman Empire, and Dear Leader being through with any present use for them.

Cloned Poster's rationale over at the Moon of Alabama for why we allowed this sounds accurate:

* Turkey sending an operational brigade of soldiers to Afghanistan.
* Turkey opening up the way for US soldiers to transfer out of Iraq using Turkish soil.
* The setting up of a missile system in Turkey.

What's not to like?

Besides, if things heat up fast enough, he might be able to cancel this silly election thing altogether.