Arabs Gain from US-Turkey Crisis


	Arabs Gain from US-Turkey Crisis

davboz

10-16-2007 4:28 AM

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history, turkey, wisdom, diplomacy

davboz says:

--<< "By assaulting Turkey, President Bush and the US Congress have sharply increased Arab leverage over US policy in Iraq and opened the way to large scale Arab participation in resolution of the Iraq crisis" .>>--
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This interestingly explores potential aftermath of "genocide" declaration.

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