[Debate] Turkish warplanes attack PKK targets in Iraq

[Ran Greenstein]

Not being a Marxist, and without commanding any armed forces, I would
settle simply for any credible international threat - acting as a
deterrent - to the interests of oppressive states (be they aligned to
the US, such as Israel or Turkey, or to Russia/China, or to their own
independent institutions)

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi
<critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't call Turkey bombing northern Iraq an exercise of its
> "sovereignty" since Iraq is not part of Turkey.  So, seen technically,
> this case, like the 2007 Israeli bombing of a planned nuclear reactor
> in Syria, would be a better candidate for UNSC concern than the civil
> war in Libya or Syria.  But we all know that what the UNSC takes up is
> what the great powers want to take up, having nothing to do with
> relative merits of cases.
>
> As for "international forces," it's not the business of Marxists to
> mobilize the armed forces they do not command, let alone the forces of
> imperialist armed forces.  The imperialist armed forces are not in the
> business of doing what Marxists think it should.  If Marxists want to
> do something militarily for others, Libyans or Kurds, they first need
> to build their own divisions.  Then, in select cases that really merit
> Marxist military interventions, they might employ them, as in the case
> of Cuba in Angola.
>
>

-- 
Ran Greenstein
Johannesburg, South Africa