BY YILMAZ OZTUNA
TURKIYE- Columnist Yilmaz Oztuna comments on past and present relations among Iraq, the United Nations and the US. A summary of his column is as follows:
The destruction of the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad full of people inside was a horrific terrorist action. The scale of last Friday’s tragedy in Najaf is also shocking. In the past, similar disasters occurred, which shows that people lacking any feeling for holy things and humane values are running rampant in this region.
The UN has packed up its things and moved from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan. Now how we can trust the Iraqis, who are inviting Turkish soldiers on the condition that a UN resolution is passed? Clearly they are using us in order to put the US and the UN at loggerheads. The UN has failed to take care in protecting the rights of nations. For example, it has always ignored the Turkish Cypriots.
I wonder if the US would like the UN butting into its business. No, what it wants are resolutions that fit in with its own policy. It will continue its project of enjoying the 21st century in prosperity with Britain. Moreover, the closer a country moves to Pax Americana, the warmer will the US treat it. Ankara should base its policy not on fantasies, but on this fact, because this policy will determine our 21st century way of life.