[Dog Gone]

The folks here who are calling for the creation of Kurdistan in order to get revenge on Turkey don't know what they're talking about. They're the same crowd that has been calling for months now to nuke Mecca.

It's completely ignorant of the realities of the situation, and it completely ignores the long-term consequences. But, what are you going to do? It's doubtful they are interested in being educated. Fortunately, we do have a highly-skilled foreign policy team at the White House, and they seem to be doing pretty well so far.

[Kenny Bunk]

Dog, Iraq is a composite state, something like the former Yugoslavia. What is wrong with giving the Kurds a Confederated Semi-Autonomous Region? Hell, I'd even take a slice from Iran for it, if I thought we could get away with it. If then they misbehaved, who but Jane Fonda would even care if the Turks had to slap'em around a little bit to keep them in it?

Granted, the Kurds are definitely not a Western-Civilization-Compatible people. However, neither were the Chiricahua Apaches, and even they got a reservation to call home. Ditto treatment for the Albanians. Better bloody, destructive tribespeople be placed in circumstances where the UN can watch(and feed)them, for at least as long as it takes them to figure out how to illegally immigrate to LA.

We (and our wonderful allies, the kind and gentle Turks,) would also have a much better chance of confining their primitive hostilities by keeping them in border-defined homelands. The alternative is having these lawless Clymers roam loose through Europe and the Middle East, wreaking havoc wherever they go.