It’s not time to start helping Syria’s Kurds, it’s time to stop calling them Syria’s Kurds. It’s also time for free and independent Kurdistan. Want to help the Kurds? Push for that.
Reason #1: Turkey doesn’t want Kurdish independence. One might argue that Turkey is behind ISIS, but the fact is, over the past three or four years, Turkey wasn’t able to recruit, equip, and advise ex-military men from Syria on how to overthrow Assad, so it’s obviously much more likely that Iran is behind ISIS.
Reason #2: Kurdistan will be carved out of Turkey (see Reason #1), the failed states of Iraq and Syria, and out of the enemy state Iran.
Reason #3: They’d make a much better ally for the US, and clearly are much better at fighting ISIS — the Iraqi army just shit its pants and turned its soiled tail and ran. They’d be much more reliable and much less Islamic than errant NATO member Turkey.
Reason #4: the Kurds have glimmerings of intelligence when it comes to relations with Israel.
Reason #5: the Kurdish area of Iraq has loads of oil, and a Kurdish member of OPEC (or better yet, non-member) would benefit the world’s oil consumers.
Reason #6: Kurdistan is almost uniquely well-watered in a mostly arid region.
Reason #7: landlocked, Kurdistan would be reliant on the US and happy to be so; it would be a nice buffer state between a number of other states which don’t get along so well.
Reason #8: Armenia has a Kurdish minority, and the Kurds recognize Turkey’s genocide perpetrated on the Armenians (at the same time, Turkey ethnically cleansed the Pontic Greeks, and to some extent the Assyrians).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Kurdistan_relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_recognition_of_the_Armenian_genocide
waaaay past time
Iran is behind ISIS?
You are probably correct. I think it’s genius how ISIS is hiding their Shiite roots. The way they act like Sunnis, killing Shiites and Christians would have you almost believe they WERE Sunni.
Absolute genius.
Big Bump!