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To: JDN who wrote (9802)	10/13/2007 9:00:34 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"Well, I cant speak for the land but seems to me, if, for a perpetual peace treaty, Turkey and Iran would carve off a piece to give to that in Iraq for a seperate nation it might make sense." I doubt that's on the table anytime soon for Turkey, Syria, or Iran to allow parts of their territories to secede and join up with the proto-Kurdish nation a-forming inside 'Iraq' right now. (But I'd say that the three 'Kurdish provinces' of Iraq are well along the road to full autonomy though... if not complete independence.) Perhaps after 'The Kurdish nation of Iraq' has been around awhile, and it's regional neighbors have gotten used to it's existence, and opened up their own societies a bit so they are not so repressive/dictatorial, etc., then things might settle down a bit, and the principle of democratic self-determination might ultimately prevail. (Like I said, that could take a while. :-) "Otherwise, I would think this insurrection will last forever. jdn" Maybe not 'forever', JD. After all, the squeaky wheel gets the grease more often then not. Having the US for a strategic ally, and being a Democracy, reasonably peaceful internally considering the regional neighbors, having a cohesive sense of nationalism and an effective self-defense force... and a wealth of oil resources under it's lands... could go a long way toward making the nation of 'Kurdistan' a going concern. (Certainly they could have more going for them as a nation then, for instance, the Sunni Arab parts of 'Iraq', or Syria, or Armenia, or Azerbaijan.)