Posted on 05/23/2016 3:32:20 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Speaking on the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement last week, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared that the old Middle East created by European imperialism was dead – and that an independent Kurdish state must be part of the emerging new order.
Referring to the secret arrangement by the Allied Powers in World War I to divide the Middle East into “spheres of influence”, Barzani blasted the Sykes-Picot Agreement, saying that it denied the rights of the inhabitants and carved up populations with arbitrary lines. The agreement served as the basis for the establishment of the modern states of Syrian, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.
“Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement. This agreement led to the carving up of the region following the First World War, disregarding the opinion of the peoples of the region and of the geographical reality in the region. It was a great injustice on the peoples of the region, especially the Kurds.”
"The consequences of this agreement were first and foremost detrimental to the people of Kurdistan in the state of Iraq. An Iraqi state that was originally established to be based on partnership between Kurds and Arabs, in fact decided to marginalize the Kurds. Successive Iraqi regimes have since denied Kurds their rights and have committed great tragedies against the Kurdish people.”
While the divisions established in the Sykes-Picot Agreement have held for a century, Barzani claims that the new reality of Islamic terrorism has effectively rendered the boundaries of states like Syria and Iraq null and void.
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Sykes-Picot was definitely a complete con job by the Anglo-French.
The eradication of those artificial creations may just stabilize the area at least more than where it is now.
A new world order, pryed from the charred, smoldering fingers of ISIS/DAESH.
Let the Kurds have their way ...
the gope neoleft and saudis don’t care about “imperialism.” the’re not the old school commie left.
RESPECT: 16000 Kurdish WOMEN stayed behind to fight ISIS, While millions of fighting age Syrian/Iraqi men fled to EU
It always helps to know the 'players'.....The Sykes–Picot Agreement /ˈsaɪks pi.ko/, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and France,[1] with the assent of the Russian Empire. The agreement defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Southwestern Asia. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916 [2] and was signed on 16 May 1916.[3] The deal was exposed to the public in Izvestia and Pravda on 23 November 1917 and in the British Guardian on November 26, 1917.[4][5]....and thus begins another chapter in the history of what possibly ails the world.....some of it anyway.
Interesting insights, but how do you stabilize a part of the world that has know nothing but instability for all recorded history and even before?
The U.S. Senate did not approve the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations or the partition of the Ottoman Empire.
According to the principles expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, government is to be based on the consent of the governed. Practical considerations limit the application of the principle of consent of the government. But, an identifiable people in an identifiable place would seem to qualify, especially in the face of a failure of the established government to safeguard to those people their peace and human rights.
The U.S. should be willing to consider the formation of a democratic Kurdish Republic spanning the northern tier of present day Iraq and Syria. As for Sunni-eastern Syria and Sunni-western Iraq, a new democratic Sunni Arab Republic might be recognized if the Sunni Arabs could get their act together and, with our support in terms of air power and such, kick the sh*t out of ISIS. But, they, not us, have to do the job.
Syria and Iraq have failed to defend the people of those places. In the case of Iraq, the corrupt Shia have betrayed us as well as the Sunnis of western Iraq. In the case of Syria, Assad is more than corrupt, but is evil.
Give those ladies all the arms they need and let them declare independence.
It would be cool if it could happen. Kurdistan could be another Israel the from the USA.
“The U.S. should be willing to consider the formation of a democratic Kurdish Republic spanning the northern tier of present day Iraq and Syria.”
Agree; but I think it’s important to get the Russians on the same page and dicker out some economic/energy benefits for them, they’ll have a stake in helping maintain stability. Barely informed opinion, open to correction ;)
It’s also only right and fair to demand that Iran and Turkey permit their Kurdish enclaves to transfer their loyalty and land to the Kurdish homeland. They both have oppressed and waged war against their Kurds off and on over the past century at least.
I don’t know. It’s congenitally unstable. I do know that if you wait around for someone else to stick up for you in this region, you’ll be in for some unpleasant inevitabilities. Looking for a super power to be your sugar daddy is not the answer, either. So whom do you turn to? People on the same boat as you. Not for stability, but for common defense.
Ooo! Little Miss Muffets!
Kurdistan could be the ‘safe zone’ Trump was talking about.
No more muslim countries. If you want some new countries in the Middle east, make some for the Copts, Iraqi and Syrian Christians. You know, the people that were there before the muslim plague came.
Re Copts, etc., that’s the idea. States for all of them, too. Kurds in Iraq for all intents and purposes have their own state, and they’re shooting ISIS, not Christians. Also, raising the idea of a new state for the Kurds shows all these Islamic states before the world as hypocrites, and puts the lie to their racist bromide “two states for two peoples”.
Kurdistan should declare statehood, and the US (and Israel) should immediately recognize it -- but the EU probably can be counted on to NOT recognize it. Thanks Eleutheria5.
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