To my Uncle Sam

[Farnan]

To my Uncle Sam, an open letter from an American student,

Uncle Sam, I wrote to you before about how you should use the power you have recently gained, I now write you to remind you of your past and how you must use it to prepare for your future.

In the Second World War, Poland fell to the armies of the Third Reich. Though, it fell and its army destroyed, many brave Poles left Poland to fight beside Commonwealth troops, even though they were now nationless. These Poles fought beside British soldiers in Arnheim, flew with American's in the RAF's Eagle Squadrons, and in many other places distinguished themselves as fine and brave soldiers. They fought for the freedom of their homeland, trusting the Brits and the Americans to garauntee a free Poland where they may return and take back their lives ruined by a madman's egomania. But instead, they were betrayed by the people they fought and died with. The West betrayed Poland to their "ally" Stalin, the Poles traded one madman for another. An American pilot who flew in an Eagle Squadron went to Poland to talk to the family of a Polish comrade-in-arms. Upon arriving there, his friend's sister told him, "You may have won your war, but we lost are's."

That story of a betrayal is probably hard for you dear uncle, but it is neccessary to retell it lest its lesson be forgotten. Though today Poland is free of the yoke of the Soviet Union; fifty years of rule was long enough. Today our loyal allies, the Kurds, seem to be threatened with a situation not like the one faced by Poland. While American troops are in Iraq, the Kurds are safe, but already Turkey is making moves. Stalin said that Poland must be communist, because an ally of the West at his borders is too dangerous. Turkey is saying that a semi-autonomist Kurdistan is a threat to Turkey. Uncle Sam you will leave Iraq one day, hopefully with a stable government, but you must remember to not let Turkey intimidate Iraq, or worse, in order to weaken the Kurdish semi-autonomy.

Uncle Sam, there are several ways to solve this problem, and the choice is up to you. Though uncle, the best solution would be to try to find a ceasefire between the Turks and the Kurds. Being an ally of both sides, you could use your weight to moderate talks between the two groups and find a sensible solution. Maybe you could even talk the Turks into allowing the Kurds in Turkey the same status as they will have in Iraq.


(any comments are good, please debate the content. Also, if a mod wants you could merge this thread with the other one, but please keep this title.)

[stop-3]

It is of no use shouting to uncle sam. Uncle Sam is nowdays mcdonalds and spears and infinite lefties loving social equality whilst wallowing in their own superiority with a political elite (eg Bush) that is decadent beyond beleif.
Human beings are rubbish to an incredible extent!

'tis a shame that we humans are so evil! This post is of no use!

[Masquerade]

Yes. Let us issolate one of the rare friendly Muslim states, that may even be a member of the European Union in the near future, member of Nato and host of countless western military bases. I can't see the incredible stupidity in this at all.

[RZZZA]

"Uncle Sam, there are several ways to solve this problem, and the choice is up to you. Though uncle, the best solution would be to try to find a ceasefire between the Turks and the Kurds. Being an ally of both sides, you could use your weight to moderate talks between the two groups and find a sensible solution. Maybe you could even talk the Turks into allowing the Kurds in Turkey the same status as they will have in Iraq."


...BAHAHAHAHAHA!

Dude...youre seriously overestimating the diplomatic capabilities of our current administration. Clinton did well with peace talks between Israel and Palestine and that was Clinton...a (and I don't think this is a stretch) diplomatic genius. Bush, on the other hand, claimed to be a uniter and not a divider and 5 years running now he's the president of the most politically divided America we've seen in a long while.

Trust me, you dont want Americans meddling in this quite yet...let the situation reach critical point, and then Americans can interfere. Otherwise we may jump in too soon and then everyone will blame us for letting the situation get so bad. Just let it get as bad as it can first, and then we'll help, that way theres no where to go but up. Brilliant, I should be a politicianer.

[Sidus Preclarum]

Maybe you could even talk the Turks into allowing the Kurds in Turkey the same status as they will have in Iraq.

this status being ... ?

[Guderian]

Umm why only mention Poland? as if that was the only country betrayed to furthur the interests of the US government. Let's see:

1) The Philliphines, the thanks you get for helping us against Spain, is we invade your country and occupy if for 47years! Brilliant!
2) Nicargura, Contras anyone?
3) Honduras. Contras anyone?
4) Iran, overthrowing democracy for autocratic rule.
5) Korea, support of corrupt leader Singman Ree (sp?)
6) Vietnam, support of a corrupt leader, support than betrayl of the corrupt Diem government. Hey at they didn't dicriminate on who they betrayed. Millions of Vietnamese dead over an exaggerated incident, the underlying cause of course being the cold war.
7) Guatemala, overthrowing a democratically elected government which then leads to decades of civil war.

And more that I can't think of now, or probably haven't heard about.

[Tiwaz]

Uncle Sam, there are several ways to solve this problem, and the choice is up to you. Though uncle, the best solution would be to try to find a ceasefire between the Turks and the Kurds. Being an ally of both sides, you could use your weight to moderate talks between the two groups and find a sensible solution. Maybe you could even talk the Turks into allowing the Kurds in Turkey the same status as they will have in Iraq.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Writer should realise at this point that odds of this succeeding are about same as storing a snowball for a week in sauna which is used daily.

Some kurds want Kurdistan, Turkey (and other nations who have kurdish minorities) does not want Kurdistan. As long as notable amount of kurds want that Kurdistan there will be activities similar to ETA war for independent Basque nation and Turkey will respond with force.