Re: Nice, real nice
peiper said:
Ficitonal has nothing to do with lies or alterations. I use the term when there is any point that is far from being true and/or correct. In this matter, there can be no Turkish officer w/o knowledge of English and that, in my book, is fictional. Also, I never wrote anything offensive against you like "Dumb big American soldier". How did you get to that conclusion?
So, is it fictional, a lie or merely an alternation? You should decide. Your English is well enough that you cannot use a lack of knowledge as an out. What are you talking about?
It seems as if you took offense to the fact that you had a field grade officer that had little working knowledge of the English language. You will have to get over that. It will not change the facts of the story, nor will in change the story itself. Or are you perhaps upset that we allowed him to eat the dehydrated potato to our amusement? I assure you, he didn't mind and we worked quite well for there rest of the operation. If you felt I was insulting Turkish SF, you're quite wrong. My first experience was with a major while attending SFQC, it was very professional and positive .. my latter experiences have been the same.
I appreciate you being neutral on the issue, but with your kind permission and being a member of a nation that has lost 30,000 lives of both ethnic origins, I have my own right in coming up with that phrase and I do not care about anyone's association.
Your attitude in this respect is not representative of the many Turkish soldiers I have worked with. Your attempt at associating me with terrorists backfired, and now you're pulling the "woe is us" card. Very well, next time, watch your wording. As far as I know, while strained due to big headed government officials (on both sides), the US and Turkey still have a working relationship.
I have made no generalisations about race or ethnicity. IMHO, anybody holding on to and using a weapon illegaly is a terrorist. Regardless of his ethnic origin, religious belief or the military he is associated with. I see no justification. "Kurdish terrorist" was written because there are no Turkish terrorists in that area. If there are, you can be sure that I'd be more as glad to get them in my scope vision as I would for anyone else.
I'm sure next time I am in N. Iraq I will rest easy knowing this bit of information. No one said you made a generalsation about race or ethnicity, you did however make a broad scoped remark about Kurds being terrorists.
You carry on slapping the wrists because we approach the issue on a different basis. Allies is what we think about the US military. Ever heard about the incident northwest of Rawandoz? Check the report of the incident involving "your associates" and two "American journalists". You may be surprised to see who was the member of the "little team" that interfered to provide security.
Approaching the issue differently doesn't mean you cannot be wrong in your behaviour, and you have been at times, just as the Kurds.
PS= Thanks for your offer. I'd love to see the photos of the incident, should you decide it is worth sending it to me.
PM me some information, and we'll see about sending photos.
