Reuters is reporting that Turkey began attacking rebel positions along the Turkey-Iraq border on Friday, and the US has discouraged this move. It seems they think Turkey should seek diplomatic solutions. This is interesting, considering that the primary reason we’re in Iraq ourselves is that we ignored similar advice. Added to that the fact that Turkey actually has a legitimate threat to its national security what with Turkey and Iraq actually sharing a border. It would be interesting to see how Condoleeza Rice would respond to the question of whether or not Turkey should take military options off the table– something the US continually says it will not do when it comes to our difficulties with other far-flung nations like Iran and North Korea, where it unfortunately seems exceedingly likely that we’ll turn our military attention if we ever get ourselves out of Iraq.

The US government has said it’s considering joint action against the PKK, which seems to suggest that they’re not actually opposed to military action as long as we’re the ones running the show.