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Independent Kurdistan?

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  • 10-04-2003 11:26am
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    dathi1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭


    One aspect of this conflict could be the above...what do yez think?


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    Johnmb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Johnmb


    It won't happen. That's been one of my main problems with this, US hypocracy. They claim that it will be an Iraq for the Iraqi people, but they will not let the Iraqi people make their own decisions. They will not allow the Kurds to set up their own nation, and they certainly won't allow the majority Shia to forge close links with Iran either as an independent nation or as the majority of a unified Iraq.


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    bobsmith833
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭bobsmith833


    Plus a viable and fair kurdish state would surely have to include areas which are currently in Turkey and Iran as well as Iraq, and because the US love the turks (or they used to at least) and hate the Iranians, neither country can be coerced into ceding territory.


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    spongebob
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    The Turks are great at making bloodcurdling threats but actually rely on US airpower to a degree, they are now unreliable as a strategic partner, Bush and his chickenhawks hate 'unreliable' allies.

    The irony is that as long as the US special forces are there, Kurdistan is de facto Free. This will continue .

    The US also wants the Kurds to help dismember Iran and Syria , another part of the axis of evil and an immediate adjunct to it.

    By the time Iraqi Iranian and Syrian Kurds are united, the EU will have prevailed on an economically desperate Turkey to give their Kurds autonomy. A pan Kurdish Federation is the result . Kirkuk/Mosul have 8% of all the Oil in the world, of course the Kurds are important.

    The US then gets a pliant buffer between Arabs and Europe.....one that owes them a debt and will not fúck around with the Midlle East or the Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline Transits apart from their own reserves. Egypt then becomes irrelevant because pipelines will carry what now goes thru the Suez Canal and Turkey becomes irrelevant as the Bosporus is no longer strategic.

    The integrated and federated Kurdistan is a potentially wonderful strategic buffer and oil transit in the one package and is as important to the US in the next 20-30 years as Israel could ever be .....and is a lot cheaper to maintain and far more polite than the Israelis. Nor have the Kurds EVER fought a war with the Israelis .

    M


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    mike65
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    Interesting conspiracy therory Muck.

    Independant Kurdistan wont happen cos the Turks wont let it. Full Stop.

    Mike.


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