..how's that work again?
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
..how's that work again?
I most reluctantly must say Joe Biden was right. Iraq is an artificial nation with boundaries drawn up mostly by British and some American influence many years ago. The boundaries had nothing to do with ethnics and religions by region. These artificial boundaries insured a totally unstable nation.
Iraq should have been three nation states which would have been Sunni, Shiite and Kurd.
The more I read, the more it looks like we are going to support the Turks, Iranians, and Baghdad screwing over the Kurds. The fact that Baghdad is cozying up to Iran is the icing on the cake.
Where did San Juan’s mayor get that custom-printed ‘Help Us’ shirt anyway?..where does one get a shirt like this made when Puerto Rico is under water and out of power?
Are they bringing Iran jets again?
Iran supports Iraq, prepares to receive Iraqi forces
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OH, that is ‘forces’, not ‘feces’.
Why oh why did we ever attack Iraq? Lament.
Obama’s flip of M.E. Suni (somewhat pro West) to Shia (virulently anti West) dominance is virtually complete ...
Demography rules:
Most of Turkey’s military-age men will come from Kurdish-speaking families by 2040 or so, because Turkey’s 20 million Kurds have twice as many children as ethnic Turks. Last year I reviewed Turkey’s 2015 census data, which show the trend towards Kurdish demographic preponderance accelerating (“Turkey’s Demographic Winter and Erdogan’s Duplicity”). Concentrated in Turkey’s southeast, the Turkish Kurds dominate a part of the country contiguous to the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq. After half a century of dirty war by the Turkish army against the Kurdish minority, Turkey’s Southeast might break away to join an Iraq-centered Kurdish state.
Iran faces a demographic catastrophe over the next 20 years because the present generation of Iranians were born to families of seven children, but have only one or two children. As the present generation ages, Iran’s elderly depends will comprise 30% of the total, about the same as Europe, but with about a tenth the per capita GDP. Iran will be the first country to get old before it gets rich, and its economy will implode. Like Turkey, though, Iran has huge ethnic disparities in birth rates. In Tehran province, Iranian women have less than one child apiece on average, but in the restive province of Baluchistan on the Pakistani border, women have 3.7 children.
http://www.atimes.com/the-inconvenient-kurds/