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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5290)3/29/2003 3:28:43 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
The Kurds in Turkey stay because when the artificial borders were drawn up by Churchill the lands they lived on ended up on the Turkish side of the border. Another cultural phenomenon that may be escaping you is that peoples in many cultures are very strongly tied to the land their ancestors had been living on.
The complete disregard for cultural make-up is one of the reasons the rest of the world sees the US as arrogant. And rightly so I would say.
Churchill's son said that Winston deeply regretted backing down under pressure from his desire to include a Kurdish nation when the Middle East pie was being sliced up.



To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5290)3/29/2003 5:50:03 PM
From: matthew (Hijacked)  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
America is so big with vast territories. Why not give a state, say Utah, to the kurds so they can establish a homeland? Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? I'm sure you wouldn't want your country divided and given away. So what makes you believe that Iraqis would sit quietly as part of their country is given to the Kurds? Better yet, why not give part of Israel back to the Palestinians?


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