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To: colorado tanker
As much as I like ancient stuff, I'd prefer the 1919 nitwits had carved out Kurdistan while they were playing around with new maps.

6 posted on 03/10/2020 3:49:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
IIRC, the British made the Kurds promises as they put together their anti-Turkey coalition. There was even a push to create a Kurdistan after WWI, but the Brits double-crossed the Kurds among many groups in cutting their Sykes-Picot deal with France.

The nitwits sure effed up the Middle East.

7 posted on 03/10/2020 4:02:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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