The effort is to restore lands to Kurds and Sunni’s in Iraq and Syria.
That is, to eliminate the false boundaries established way back in 1918 by French and Brit diplomats intent on carving up the defeated Ottoman empire
Ahhh you hit on the crux of the problem. These trace back to the greatest man made disaster in history, WW1.Or at least to Wilson’s tipping the scales and not letting the Alliance and Entente come to an exhaustive staus quo ante bellum peace.
See Fromkin’s A peace to End All Peace.
“The effort is to restore lands to Kurds and Sunni’s in Iraq and Syria.
That is, to eliminate the false boundaries established way back in 1918 by French and Brit diplomats intent on carving up the defeated Ottoman empire.”
Sorry, I missed the part where Congress authorized any of that. Can you help me out?
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