anyone know what's going on in the potomac basin?

[rone]

First, Congress issues a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire, which passes in committee, thereby pissing off our allies the Turks.  President Bush opposes this resolution coming to a full vote, but then he goes and gives the Dalai Lama a medal, thereby pissing off our allies the Chinese.  Who will we piss off next, and why?

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

Turkey allows us to fly military supplies in and out, mostly to and from Iraq these days. A Turkish No-Fly policy would severely hamper the US military effort in Iraq... and might result in the Pres. being forced to pull out early.

We have no such arrangements with the PRC, and they haven't been entirely helpful in our dealings with the PRNK, Burma, and Sudan. As much I have no use for him and consider this to be only a very small step in the right direction, kudos to GWB for tweaking the PRC's collective noses. A better step, mind you, would be revoking MFN for the PRC until they pull support from Sudan, but hey, little steps, I guess.

[mononeuron.livejournal.com]

> No-Fly policy [...] might result
> in the Pres. being forced to pull out early.

Or, it might force the president to bomb Turkey early, even though they're not one of the key oil suppliers to a nation of "pil users".

(Whimsey: How come only "computer geeks" and "drug dealers" call their customers "users"?)

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Hehe, US bomb Turkey... thank you for that, I needed the laugh.

('Cos computer geeks and drug dealers get to see people at their self-humiliating worst.)