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...the Kurds deserve an independent state?
by JPhurst on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 10:49:39 AM PDT
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If contained to what is now Iraq, that wouldn't be a problem. But the Kurds want a state that would include parts of Turkey and Iran. That would be way to destabalizing.
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by Paleo on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 10:52:10 AM PDT
They want Kirkuk. Kirkuk has a large Arab population that doesn't want to be "ethnically cleansed" from their homeland.
But okay, let's take the position of partitioning Iraq into three. Well, since the Sunnis get no oil in that situation they have no choice but to resort to full-on civil war.
But with 6600 dead in the last two months, maybe that wouldn't be a big change.
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by brainiacamor on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 11:05:15 AM PDT
Is that the debate we're having? At the very least, it goes against the stated intentions of the US, UN, Iraq, and the Kurdish government themselves. Further, the Kurds have a history of allying themselves with very untrustworthy sponsors.
The Israelis would certainly follow that model. They are not there to help Kurds, but to prevent a strong Iraq and to fuck with Iran as well. The Israelis would sell out the Kurds in a second if their tension with Iran came to an end, if they got a better deal with the Iraqi government, to protect their alliance with Turkey, or for any other reason that suits them.
So don't give me Kurdish independence crap. Israeli commandos are certainly not the way to attain it. Having US soldiers die in a possibly futile effort to hold Iraq together while our putative ally Israel works to pull it apart is enough to cause a little bile.
by weasel on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 11:04:51 AM PDT
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