• Kurds of Iraq are angry for not being invited among the 21 countries to London for an anit-ISIS conf
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Kurds are doing more to fight ISIS then anybody and they're kicked to the sidelines. Well played.
The US will never give up the Kurdish regions in Turkey, one of NATO's most powerful members and a close history with America. It will never ever happen, no matter how much of IS the Kurds destroy Turkey is a far more valuable asset to them.
[QUOTE=aydin690;47006259]It's still not a country. Iraq was invited.[/QUOTE] But nothing prevents them from inviting people that aren't leaders of independent states? Kurdistan is still a major player in the fight against the Islamic State, and is acting autonomously from the Iraqi government. I don't see why they should be left out of the conference when they're the ones doing all the work and suffering the most losses.
[QUOTE=Grimhound;47007056]Cool. So we can just look at the Kurds again and shrug to them as their enemies exterminate them again. Maybe they'll finish the job this time. We can only hope. I mean, think of the diplomatic kerfuffle it might cause if they had their own nation. That was meant with sarcasm strong enough to strip paint, by the way.[/QUOTE]How is making them their own nation going to prevent their enemies from trying to exterminate them?
[QUOTE=Grimhound;47007056]Cool. So we can just look at the Kurds again and shrug to them as their enemies exterminate them again. Maybe they'll finish the job this time. We can only hope. I mean, think of the diplomatic kerfuffle it might cause if they had their own nation. That was meant with sarcasm strong enough to strip paint, by the way.[/QUOTE] You think the Kurds are [i]more[/i] likely to get targeted for extermination if they're politically protected by being small parts of other countries, versus being their own country with a big KURDS'R'US sign on it? Have you read, like, anything about the history of Israel? With Saddam gone the Kurds aren't in immediate danger of genocide, but if they had their own country it would certainly be of interest to Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. One problem at a time. First we deal with IS, [i]then[/i] we can talk about Kurdish independence.
I hope the Kurds just hold their land against ISIS and not push forward and let the chucklefuck joke of a military that belongs to Iraq keep falling flat on it's face. As it looks to me they don't owe anybody shit.
[QUOTE=catbarf;47012748]You think the Kurds are [i]more[/i] likely to get targeted for extermination if they're politically protected by being small parts of other countries, versus being their own country with a big KURDS'R'US sign on it? Have you read, like, anything about the history of Israel? With Saddam gone the Kurds aren't in immediate danger of genocide, but if they had their own country it would certainly be of interest to Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. One problem at a time. First we deal with IS, [i]then[/i] we can talk about Kurdish independence.[/QUOTE] I don't think it's that simple. There's a large possibility that if Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan form their own country, Iran and Turkey may attempt to push their Kurdish populations into that out of their own country instead of simply seeking to destroy it.
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