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To: Chas. who wrote (105610)	7/15/2003 4:27:52 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Kurds are moving in to work the villages> Kurds will be able to hold Kurdish-populated areas. Kurds will never be able to hold non-Kurdish areas (unless they do some ethnic cleansing, payback for what the Arabs did to them for the last 30 years). So, yes, we have a proxy force to hold 20% of Iraq. What about the other 80% of the population? Or do you propose turning the Kurds into a military elite, a favored group who will hold other ethnic groups down by force? The Brits have a lot of experience at doing this, in places like India. Divide and conquer, set the natives tribes against each other. Maybe they can lend us some of their old manuals on how to run colonies.