What would you do? You perceive a threat to your national security. A known terrorist group is a serious threat to harm your country and kill your citizens. You devise a plan to make a pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign country and threaten it loudly and long. Your parliament is set to vote on authorization any time now. Other nations encourage you to use diplomacy but you are inflexible….

Sound familiar? Well, this time Turkey is going to invade Kurdistan, which happens also to be the northern part of Iraq. But it’s OK because it follows the Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive Invasion of Countries You Don’t Like to a tee. I mean, we think the Kurds are our allies, even though we have declared the PKK a terrorist organization, but Turkey has been attacked by them. Our State Department says “…they need to work together to resolve it, and I am not sure that unilateral incursions are the way to go.” Aww, come on, we set such a fine example before. How can we say that now? Turkey is just helping spread democracy in the region by following the example of that great Democracy to the West…aren’t they?