http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/scomp.htm
is that the generally accepted reason for why we didnt go into Turkey? is the difference in urgency between them due to the level of specifically reported atrocities? was the kosovo situation more important because of the idea that slobodon was forcing them to leave the country, where they would then become the problem of another country (and turkey didnt)?
i think the number of hurt people should matter. theres more in turkey, 30,000 dead, 2 million displaced vs more atrocities (how many dead?) and 800,000 displaced. a shanty town on the outside of the city isnt that much better than a shanty town wherever the kosavars would have ended up. they both were forced to leave whatever life they liked with accusations of brutal military badness.
if the reason why we went into kosovo was any of the first three questions, then we can say that the purpose of the military is not to save humanities disasters, it is to enforce civil order among the big entities that currently exist. if the reason why the military exists is to ensure happiness for all of humanity, i think we would have decided that turkey ought to be more than one country (or whatever fixed kosovo) if kurds hate it there so much. and we would have sent in the military to prevent the current turkish owners from disagreeing. i dont know that that is true at all, somebody tell me im wrong.
so ok, fine, the purpose of our military is to work for our best interests, not the interests of strangers. however, why did the rulers of turkey join our side, the nato, pro-west side, instead of the pro middle east side that most people would probably want there (right?)? if it was because of the money that they, the rulers themselves, would gain, and not because it was in the best interests of the country, how is that going to make the poor people feel?
what if it was a pro-middle eastern, anti-west country with a bunch of white people in the northeast, violently protesting their somehow deplorable conditions. what would the violently anti-west, middle east dictators do about this problem? would they support their friends efforts to destroy our white friends rebellion? wouldnt that make you angry!?
what if the pro-arab rulers of turkey are rich and take advantage of the country and the whites for use in their relationship with the other arabs. rich arabs are trading the fruits of our white labor with other arabs, who are freaking terrorists who we hate. our white people are getting the bottom rung jobs, while the few white traitors and the foreigners are getting away with all the money.
the only reason why they have control of our white people in the first place is because a long time ago, they managed a military subjugation and then later decided which areas will be under the control of which puppets. is that the only reason why they are stuck there (in the real world, not the metaphor)? if thats the case in the metaphor, then we would send our awesome white military to reconquer the white people that the arabs conquered, right? or we would just use our military to never let white people get conquered in the first place.
but in the metaphor, we live in a third world white country that doesnt really have a military, or any easy way for me to leave the universe of my farm now that i think about it, which isnt often. some religious guy is telling me about the plight of our people and how that magical god force ive always instinctually felt (why wouldnt i believe that instinct?) wants me to help my friends who i know are suffering badly. the apocalypse is coming, and the unimaginably gigantic empire of the devil is upon us, and it our destiny to blah blah. he says i should pray really hard.
do the rulers of turkey have palaces? do the poor people of turkey think that if they joined the other side, they would be better off? are they right? does it matter if they are right if they think it? it seems like it should be really easy to piss them off is what im saying.
is turkey just as powerful in nato as any other country? if you were an average poor citizen in turkey, would you ask your friends if the rest of nato would treat a western country like that? would you get really angry?
(the questions are not a rhetorical device, they are the questions that im asking. they are not facts, there are no rhetorical questions as far as i know.)