Everybody needs good neighbours
Iran “doesn’t have the right to undermine the stability of its neighbours,” says Foreign Affairs supremo David Milliband.
Stability? Neighbours? Does he mean Armenia with its violent political demonstrations and border skirmishes with Azerbaijan? Or, indeed, Azerbaijan with its corrupt elections and politically motivated arrests? Or Turkmenistan (routine torture by the security services), Pakistan (military dictatorship), Afghanistan (post-T.W.A.T. basket-case) or Iraq (ditto)?
It must be like living in the same street as the Manson Family, Fred West, Skeletor and Alastair Campbell. You’d be worried which one is going to go tonto next, banging on the door and screaming obscenities through the letterbox in the middle of the night.
You yourself might be a religious fundamentalist wife-beater with little man syndrome and a degree in insecurity but you’ll still want to keep that pool cue by the bed.
Posted on July 9th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
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In other news from the region:
Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq but so far there have been no violations, Iraq’s foreign minister said today.
Hoshyar Zebari’s comments came amid calls by Turkey’s military for the government to give it the green light to carry out military operations in northern Iraqi against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
“Turkey is building up forces on the border. There are 140,000 soldiers fully armed on the border. We are against any military interference or violation of Iraqi sovereignty,†Zebari said in Baghdad.
Did Milliband mention this in the FT article?
So who does have the right to undermine the stability of other countries. The UK/US invasion of Iraq has undermined the stability of the whole neighbourhood by creating a failed state in Iraq and the UK and US administrations continue to talk as if they had the right to do that!
Meet the new boss, etc, etc, etc…