Former envoy: U.S. driving Turkey, Iran together

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Former envoy: U.S. driving Turkey, Iran together
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The retired general who served as President Bush's special envoy to deal with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said the United States has failed to keep its promises to Turkey to confront the Kurdish terrorist group, and Turkey may feel that it has no choice but to attack the PKK's sanctuary in northern Iraq.

Retired Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, in a brief interview, declined to say why he stepped down several weeks ago. But published reports have said that he was frustrated by the Bush administration's failure to act against the PKK.

In his first extended comments since his departure, Ralston told McClatchy Newspapers that the United States is unwittingly "driving, strategically, the Turks and the Iranians together" because both nations share concerns about violent Kurdish separatist groups.

"The U.S. government should make good on the commitments they have made to the Turks," Ralston said.

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1. Aren't these Kurdish separist groups the ones that support Al Quida?

Anyone else finding it ludicrous that that Turkey and Iran are fighting the people who harbored the 9/11 terrorists and we're fighting Iran and Turkey?