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Posted on 07/11/2014 11:21:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A partition is the only way to solve this. The Kurds do not need the sunnis and shites.
The Kurds are the only worthy people in Iraq, aside from the Christians. Not only are the hard fighters with a passion for liberty, they are also amazingly pro-American. The only place our soldiers could walk around without body armor, and even weapons, and go out for a meal at a local restaurant, was with the Kurds, and every Kurd I have heard of over there have always thanked us.
“...the best the West will probably be able to do is to contain it to Iraq and Syria while promoting democracy in the new, independent Kurdistan.”
An independent Kurdistan... now THERE’S the horse to back... IF the US is smart enough to do it... But I am not optimistic!
Then I'm sure obammy will them brought down.
It seems that the Kurds got it right. My question would be Turkey. It seems that Turkey is okay for now with a stable Kurdistan on their border keeping the ISIS maniacs out. But what happens when the Kurds in Turkey want to leave and join Kurdistan?
I've been trying to learn the history I never learned well enough in college. Could it be that the way out of this mess is a very thorough realignment of the borders that were so badly messed up after WW1?
If I understand correctly, Al-Maliki is Obama’s hand-picked dude; even being in there without the approval of the Iraqi “Parliament.”
If so, the Kurds have a good point asking for an PM that is approved of by the representatives.
A US Army officer said some years back that the best choice for Iraq would be to let the Kurds run the show.
Are they still tied to communism?
There is a large Kurdish population around Nashville and they are the only Muslims I trust.
Even though we left them swinging in the wind. Twice now? Clinton and Obama
The Great Saladin of Crusades fame was a Kurd, they are his people. Their section of Iraq was the easiest assignment, so easy that US Army assigned a Nation Guard division to occupy the area.
They’ll need an air force if they’re going to stay free.
Realigning borders is always messy. Further study of the area shows that the place has been conquered and reconquered time and again in recorded history. It is such a mess that borders cannot and will not solve the myriad of problems there.
Once solution is to let them fight it out and the last man standing gets the dubious prize. And before he sits down to dinner, someone else will be challenging him for the prize.
The 3 way partition of Iraq looks great on paper to Westerners who see Kurds in the North, Sunnis in the middle, and Shi’ites in the South+Baghdad.
What could go wrong?!
...but that’s the worst of all worlds because that removes the incentive for the Kurds and Shi’ites to police the Sunnis in the middle...Sunnis who have no oil in the middle. Iraq’s oil is in the North and South.
Leaving the middle to the Sunnis creates a defacto Sunni caliphate. Terror central. With no oil.
What do you think the Sunnis are going to do...left alone from the influence of Baghdad?!
Poof!
You just created ISIL’s dream state. Congrats! World terror just doubled because a 3 way partition looked good to stupid Westerners on paper.
For years I have had a lot of sympathy for the Kurds, at least in general. The Kurdish part of Iraq has apparently flourished in the last few decades.
At this point I almost feel like emulating the Kurds. After all we have a president who is “has become hysterical and has lost his balance.”
Let the Kurds have the oil fields and refinery rather than ISIS. They fight ISIS.
The southern Iraqi oilfields are too close to Kuwait and Saudi and I doubt that the US and Iran will allow ISIS to get a hold of them.
Is Islam better than communism?
Turkey (our NATO ally) and Iran will not allow an independent Kurdistan, nor give up territory to its nationalists, both have fought with Kurd groups for years and deem them “terrorists”
Kurdish self-determination as part of a loose “Iraq” federation - tolerated perhaps
independent nation - not
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