They certainly do have their own interests, and integration into a broader western economic community happens to be one of them. All of which will go away if they go into Iraq with any sort of military force against the US's wishes. I have no doubt the Turkish military is a capable force. We've been making it so for the past couple of decades. Manufacture a pretext for an incursion into Northern Iraq? Do you honestly think we're so bogged down in Iraq as to stand idly by and let'em have at it? Let alone the fact that should Turkey go in they'll have to deal with a guerilla war just as bad as the one we have going now. There's a huge difference between a response to Lebanon and a response to Turkey muscling it's way into Iraq. Using US/western indecisiveness in Iraq as part of your argument doesn't fly.
And in case you haven't noticed, it's been open season in the MEast for the past 25 years. Would've been far easier for the Turks to grab those oil fields from an impotent Saddam than right under the noses of 120,000 American troops.
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