@neolex:
Patrolling a NATO-mandated no-fly zone over Georgia is also a form of “using US military force”.

Aha! that’s it! We can’t do overflights if we don’t have Turkish cooperation. If the Turks have weenied out on us, that means no overflights, period, …unless the Ukrainians or Bulgarians offer bases [dream on, right?]

That raises the Kurdistan question, of course. Kurds are very good smugglers. Anti-air and anti-armour missiles are eminently smuggleable (izzat a word?)

Turkey may be calculating she can paly the Euro-weenies on Iran’s behalf against the Russkies.

No, the answer is always the same. Smash Iran, and Turkey will giggle defenseively, and offer us anything so long as we don’t support a Turkish Kurdistan.

What a batch of bitches in a bunch. Like I like to say, we all shouldn’t mind weenie allies; we oughta mind strong enemies. At least I hope we’ve got that one straight.