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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (129630)4/20/2004 3:56:09 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Sarmad,
Perhaps so. But Kurds are building facts on the ground in the north. There is a lot of black gold in them thar' sandhills, and a lot of incentive to maintain/gain control of it. Plus of course the Kurd desire for independence. I doubt that they want to have Sistani or any other Arab or Persian cleric trying to run their lives or have ultimate authority over the area they have gotten used to calling their own. Why do you believe that they will be unable to hold any large cities? Even though they are a minority in Iraq as a whole, they are concentrated in certain areas and are becoming more so. And they have their own armies. I can't say I know what percentage of the Kirkuk area is Kurd, but it is my impression that it is larger than than any other single group (please correct me if this is incorrect).

However, I believe there will be a lot of blood-shed in Iraq after the US leaves. But it will not be along Sunni/Shi'aa lines. It will be more in the line of nationalists rooting out foreign agents from positions of power.
I'm not sure who you are referring to when you say "foreign agents." Are Kurds foreign agents? You appear to suggest this. Are the people who are helping the US nationalists or foreign agents? Or are the people who are resisting the US the foreign agents or the nationalists?
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