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To: SunkenCiv
Since I reject your underlying premise that the Kurds are a group of noble mountain warriors who'd rather be herding goats if it weren't for their fiendish Turkish neighbors, I must also reject your conclusion that a Kurdish state is a solution.

The proposed Kurdish Worker's Democratic People's Republic requires about a third of Anatolia, and to do that, the PKK has committed terrorist actions against Turkey for nigh on twenty years now. The Turks have been having their equivalent of 9-11 about three times a year for an awful long time, but through a paranoid, psychotic reversal of reasoning, they somehow are the villains in this conflict.

I am reminded of how the Viet Minh were portrayed as mere nationalistic agrarian reformers forty yers ago. The same mentality that doomed millions in Southeast Asia to mass graves and slave labor is at work here.

And this is supposed to be a conservative forum.

Kurds and Kurdistans

17 posted on 06/26/2004 8:58:32 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Comitas, Firmitas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Industria)
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To: Mortimer Snavely
Self-determination is a conservative value.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

18 posted on 06/30/2004 10:27:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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