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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (224650)3/19/2007 2:21:10 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
"We again insist on IRAQ's territorial integrity. IRAQ should not be divided and we are against any intervention or its break-up into statelets," he said.

This is the thing that doesn't make sense. Who cares if it is not in Jordan's interest for Iraq to break up into a few different states? Perhaps that outcome is in the best interest of the people of Iraq. Is there anyone who thinks an independent Kurdistan would be bad for the Kurds? And if the result of Sunnis and Shias living together in the remainder or former Iraq is one side brutally oppressing the other, it seems obvious that their separation into Shiastan and Loserstan (Sunnistan) is an appropriate course of action.

Iran and Turkey don't like that idea, because they have large Kurdish minorities that would like to be part of Kurdistan. OK. Let them. If Iran and Turkey were good to their Kurdish populations, then they would want to secede. Look at the Frenchies in Ontario - they vote every now and then on secession, and decide 'no'. If the Turkish and Iranian Kurds decide 'yes' they want to seced and join Kurdistan, it is because their current situation as minorites in their respective countries sucks, and therefore Turkey and Iran don't deserve to keep them. We should support the effort to redraw national maps that were screwed up when created ~100 years ago.
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