Turkish front still a possibility?

[Ronn_Bman]

MSNBC report the Turks are preparing an emergency vote on whether or not to allow access to US troops. They'd said a vote wouldn't happen in less than a week, but the immediate nature of things may have changed their mind.

[Thoran]

I heard they'd already given the OK... but perhaps that was premature. Turkey is very much afraid of getting left out of the "post-war Iraq" loop, and with good reason. The Kurds have the potential to be a HUGE problem on their border (and inside their border). There was talk that the basic strategy of Turkey was going to be to invade Northern Iraq and supress any "nationalistic" tendencies in the Iraqi Kurds... as well as preventing a refugee flood into Kurdish areas of Turkey (which would be very destabalizing). This was even though the US and Britain only wanted them to secure the border and provide humanitarian assistance to refugee's.

I hope that the "Northern Front" plan is worth the PITA that Turkey will likely become in the post war phase. Then again... they've been pacifying Kurds for decades now, perhaps they would end up being helpful.

[Sir Taliesin]

That would indeed be goo news! The 4th Infantry Division is supposed to be the most modern equiped Division in the Army. At least that was what CNN was saying last night. And they were going to ride the war out onboard ships off the coast of Turkey.

General McCaffery was also saying last night that he was worried about the shortage of follow on forces coming be hind the main thrust to Bagdad. This could alevate that problem.

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Sir Taliesin: The 4th Infantry Division is supposed to be the most modern equiped Division in the Army.

Yes, there is a reason they have the unofficial nickname: the Digi Division.