Richnorth is a zealot, and since some visible groups push hard politically in one direction, he seems to feel the need to push back against them. Some of the things he posts are impossible to verify (there are so many theories on 9/11 for example that it is too nebulous for me at least to say where the truth is), but I don't see him as being full of hate.
As for Joe Biden, I would agree that Iraq will probably never have peace and stability until it is more or less ethnically partitioned (and probably not until a long time after that -- people saw what happened when India and Pakistan were divided). To actually implement that kind of deal would require honest, concerted diplomacy on the part of Americans with all the countries in the region, including Iran and Syria, because Turkey, Iran and Syria all are not going to like the Kurds having a lot of independence because it will lead to issues with sizeable Kurdish minorities in some of their bordering areas. That means talking directly with Iran and Syria in a noncynical way, and involving participation from others like Russia and the EU. It is crazy that the US is not doing this yet, except that I think it is a reflection that too many people in the administration are divorced from reality on the Middle East. And if Kurds are given a viable autonomous political entity, why not the Palestinians also -- that is the festering wound in the whole Middle East the injustice of which creates so much animosity towards the US in the region? There will only be peace in the Middle East when everyone has a genuine home where their ethnic groups have equality, political representation and people have a hope to live normal working lives without military occupation. Under such conditions people could hopefully go beyond religion and ethnicity to cooperate and make their lives better. Also, the Middle East's oil wealth is not going to last forever, so people better start sharing it more equally, generating viable regional economies, rather than spending all the money on such things as weapons or giving it all away to the members of royal families. When there is so much profit from the sale of American weapons, when others refuse to allow a viable Palestinian state, and when solving the Middle East's problems might mean involve taking away the power of small numbers over massive oil wealth, one can see why so much lobbying is forcing things in the opposite direction of peace. |
