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re: While we were busy doing something else.

Turkey is important US NATO ally. To imagine that the US isn't closely involved in this Turkish "invasion" seems highly unlikely.
The Turks have a problem- and it's not a new one. It's in US interests to do what it can to resolve this problem.
Whether the military operation is ultimately effective- is something which is questionable.

The question from the political aspect is what the Kurdish leadership does about Kurdish fighters/terrorists who want a larger Kurdish state- or these that hold that warfare is only effective political action to resolve "problems" of Kurdish people in other countries [such as Turkey]. And since Kurdish leaders are part of Iraqi leadership, non-Kurd Iraqi leadership will also be involved.

Basically if Turkey interests is to damage/weaken/slow terrorist activity in their country by attacking operational bases in Iraq- then they could be successful. If they want to stop it- that won't be successful. Ultimately it is always in the end, about a political solution.

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States has designated a Kurdish militant group in Turkey as a terrorist organization, the State Department said.
The group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, known as TAK, is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK -- the separatist Kurdish group that has been attacking Turkey from inside northern Iraq."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/11/us.turkey/index.html

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