To: Rockitz
The idea is as old as the byzantine empire, and probably before.
The splitting of near Asia based on the brits and french is the bane of our existence.
4 posted on
09/07/2014 10:45:10 AM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: Vermont Lt; nuconvert; odds; Kaslin
The author doesn't seem to realise that Kurds are an Irani people. Their language is related to Farsi and they are most likely descendants of the Medes or the Cardusii or both
There are indepdendence movements in Irani Kurdistan, but these are ethnic cousins, so not the blood-feuds as with Arabs
5 posted on
09/08/2014 7:36:00 AM PDT by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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