Along with that, I have always stubbornly defended the unpopular position that Turkey should be playing an active role in this inescapable war.
I should however review two mistakes I have made in my analysis:
1) I saw the technologic superiority of the US Air Forces, but I wasn't able to forsee how incapable the hired army of the US armed forces would be bringing harmony and order to Iraq.
2) I allowed for the depth of knowledge in the neo-cons who are shaping US foreign policy, but I didn't realize that their ideologic obsessions would create ideologic blindness on this level.
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As far as I'm concerned, the US administration's bogged down policy in Iraq has brought that country to the point of civil war.
And the fact that Turkey is just sitting back and watching it really worries me!
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I am afraid that the Iraq Constitution, which will be voted on on October 15, will not even have a chance to be implemented, and that a virtual Armageddon will break out between the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds on that date!
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First of all, contrary to what Bush had promised, the Iraq Constitution is in fact not a liberal democratic constitution at all.
According to an expert on the region, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, David L. Philips, the Iraqi Constitution puts the Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs and Kurds at odds with eachother. It also, he says, pits secularists against religionists.
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The consitution being proposed today creates the foundation for a theocratic administration in Iraq, as well as denying democractic and human rights.
The Iraqi Constitution sets Islam as Iraq's official religion, accepts religions "Sharia" law as the main source for the country's law and order, and says that no further laws should fall against any of Islam's basic beliefs. The consitution also makes it possible for religions mullahs to take their place in Iraq's Federal Court, giving them also the right to veto anything they perceive as being anathema to Islamic belief.
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The Bush administration, has allowed amendments to the Iraqi Constitution which not only don't balance but actually make worse the struggles between the country's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The constitution lies in opposition with what a liberal democratic constitution would be.
I will continue tomorrow enunciating my belief that Turkey will be very deeply affected in 2006 by the current events in Turkey.
