Comments on: Kurdish Immigrant: ‘Why Would the U.S. Turn Its Back on Us Now?’

By: joelr

joelr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:31:10 +0000

It's safe, I think . . . . . . to predict that there will be some rethinking about the viability of independence vs. autonomy among the Iraqi Kurds after President Clinton and Speaker Pelosi have their helicopters-on-the-embassy roof moment in Baghdad. (Autonomy, as used to describe the Iraqi situation, presupposes a central government that is either too weak or too principled to mess with Kurdistan, but a central government nonetheless; as it is, Iraqi Kurdistan is )

By then, it will probably be too late, for at least another generation, but the Kurds are a resilient people; they'd already been around for centuries when Xenophon noticed them, after all.

It's absurd that there isn't an independent Kurdistan, and the most recent (and promising) opportunity to settle the Problem of Kurdistan wasn't 87 years ago, but in the wake of Gulf War I, but it was scuttled in the Bush-Baker team, in which the Kurds were encouraged to revolt, and then hung out to dry.

There's every indication it will happen again.

By: joelr

joelr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s safe, I think . . . . . . to predict that there will be some rethinking about the viability of independence vs. autonomy among the Iraqi Kurds after President Clinton and Speaker Pelosi have their helicopters-on-the-embassy roof moment in Baghdad. (Autonomy, as used to describe the Iraqi situation, presupposes a central government that is either too weak or too principled to mess with Kurdistan, but a central government nonetheless; as it is, Iraqi Kurdistan is )

By then, it will probably be too late, for at least another generation, but the Kurds are a resilient people; they’d already been around for centuries when Xenophon noticed them, after all.

It’s absurd that there isn’t an independent Kurdistan, and the most recent (and promising) opportunity to settle the Problem of Kurdistan wasn’t 87 years ago, but in the wake of Gulf War I, but it was scuttled in the Bush-Baker team, in which the Kurds were encouraged to revolt, and then hung out to dry.

There’s every indication it will happen again.