Posted on 05/19/2004 6:59:20 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/page1007.html
why not? we partitioned the $#!^ out of Yugoslavia.
Another form of North and South Korea?
I always thought the Kurds should have their own country - plus I'd be much more inclined to trust them with Kirkuk's oil, than say... a self-flogging Shiite.
hey !Don't be so hard. seperation worked all the time on Romper Room! It's the UN's fave stragegery. Look at Cypress, Korea, etc..
Let them fight it out themselves. If the Kurds want freedeom, let them fight the Sunnis and Shi'ites for it. Get a central government in place and then get out.
They'd go to war over that, I'd imagine.
I always thought the Kurds should have their own country...
Actually I dont think the US had anything to do with the separation of Yugoslavia. My wife is a Croatian and the way it was explained to me was that the states wanted to separate and govern themselves, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro,Slovenia, etc, however Serbia had a different plan....
Neither Turkey, nor Iran and Syria won't let them have a seperated country!
I think it was more like they did it on their own. I think one of the problems with partitioning, balkanizing, Iraq, will be similar to that of partitioning Israel: both sides will want Bagdad, like both sides want Jerusalem, and they insist on it, and that becomes the new, perpetual issue. Too bad. They seem determined to annihilate each other. I just wish one of them could accomplish it.
The only people for whom partitioning Iraq is unthinkable are those neighbors of Iraq for whom partition is against their interests. If the Iraqi Kurds get "Kurdistan", then the Iranian, Russian and Turkish (especially) Kurds will want to join, and none of them want to lose the population or territory. Apparently they're all for self-determination as long as it doesn't mean self-determination of people in their own countries.
The problem is that the boundaries for all the countries in the Middle East, including Turkey's, were drawn up by colonial powers, or by the winners in wars where Middle Eastern interests were the losers. And the boundaries were then drawn up for the economic interests of the people drawing them, not the national interests of the people whose boundaries were being drawn. The Kurds in all those countries have more in common with each other than they do with Anarka (or is it Istanbul?), Moscow, or Tehran. Or Baghdad. And in the main, they're pro-Western (or at least not anti-Western).
PING!
The Kurds would be glad to fight the Shia and the Sunnis for freedom. Their biggest problem, though, would likely be an invasion from Turkey.
Tough.
The freakin' TURKS decided they would not cooperate with us, so why the hell should we give a stinking load what they want?
They actually tried that one time back in 1988, and the maniacs running the country launched a devastating chemical weapons attack on them.
I know we're all supposed to believe that there are no WMDs left in the country anymore, but I imagine that the Kurds probably aren't too anxious to test that theory out in light of history.
That's because the Kurds haven't been anointed as a "Chosen People" by the international community like the Palestinian Arabs have. A properly executed propaganda campaign would do the trick.
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