Posted on 06/23/2014 1:37:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Way to go, Kurds. That is how you repay America by breaking up the country we fought to free.
Why did we bother with Operation Iraqi Freedom if Kurds wanted out all along?
Let the Kurds be Kurdistan.
God bless the Kurds... Go luck to them.
Carpe diem, Kurds!
I think they should wait for Obama to solve their problems.
Racists!
Yes!
I know how he feels.
They are shackled to an European-created corpse, and are under no obligation to stay when the reality of the situation is highly negative to their well-being.
So, the Kurds will go their own whey?................
They will grow their own whey!
Iraqi Freedom was against Saadam Hussein. The Kurds were his victims and prisoners.
During the long US occupation of Iraq, not one US troop was lost in Kurdish areas. Not one. The Kurds protected us more than gold.
Iraq needed the Kurds for political stability - to balance the Sunni-Shia rivalry. They gave it a great effort, but it has been sabotaged by seriously bad actors in both the Sunni and Shia communities.
Just as we don’t want to endlessly sacrifice our blood and treasure for the Sunnis and Shia to work things out, neither do the Kurds. Their liberty is on the line as well.
Kurds popularly want to be independent. They deserve it.
They do seem to have made the most out of the situation they're in. Just one question....what happens when this nation of Kurdistan spreads into Turkish regions? Turkey is in NATO. Would NATO be required to defend Turkey's borders?
Entangling alliances have consequences.
This is the unraveling of the Sykes-Picot treaty back into religious and tribal areas that existed before WW-I
Let it happen
Read last week Maliki had requested Kurds’ Peshmerga to come fight ISIS further central & south of Iraq when Arab Iraqis took off without a fight to push back ISIS. Reportedly, Peshmerga responded ‘we are not a force that takes requests’. Incidentally & further reported by media, the Kurds warned both Maliki & the US some 6 months ago about ISIS. Neither one took preventative actions.
They’ll call it another lonely day.................
From the article: With Turkey now looking to the Kurds as their “best ally” in the region, independence may be more within their grasp than ever before.
Turkey and the KRG have had years of economic ties much to the displeasure of Baghdad.
There are Kurdish terrorists like the PKK that have been at war with Turkey since the 1980s. There are Kurds in eastern Turkey who probably would like to merge. There are Mexicans in all the states of the southeast who would like to merge with Mexicorruption. At least for now the Turks and the KRG appear to be getting along together. The PKK is a totally different Turkish - Kurdish issue.
The problem is all Kurds are going to want to be in that nation, and areas where Kurds and Sunnis and/or Shites live together could get sucked into the chaos. If not in Turkey, in those areas of Syria where Kurds live.
The answer would be for ISIS to be eliminated before it spreads. It might already be too late for that. If it is, the world is going to become a very dangerous place....everywhere.
To be clear, PKK has been fighting the Khomeinist regime in Iran too, for decades. But PKK, by no means, has the resources, nor the majority out of all Kurdish political groups. As William of Carmichael said: it is a Kurdish issue. I’m sure the Kurds will deal with PKK, in time & as politically needed.
The Kurds wanted out of their Iraqi servitude LONG before we ever got there. And, Saddam would have killed them all, if he could have found a way to do it quietly and without pointing the finger at himself.
Let the Kurds have their own country. Let them be in charge of their own future. Could not do much worse than the present disaster.
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