georgephillip
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- Dec 27, 2009
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The incentives I've read about that are being offered to Turkey and Israel to provide cover for oil and gas pipelines originating in the Caspian basin include EU membership for the Turks and NATO for Israel. I'm guessing we won't have to wait too long to find out.I agree with your perspective on the Kurds.Turkey does not share your opinion. Free Kurdistan would be at war with Turkey within hours of becoming an independent state.
That is true. Turkey would invade immediately. But i think it's time for the Kurds to have their Homeland. They've suffered enough. The Arabs, Turks, and Persians have tormented them for Centuries. I'd like to see em finally prosper.
It's just that such nation-erecting commentary takes me by surprise, coming from a Paulite.
I've always operated under the (mistaken?) impression that ya'll are fairly insistent isolationist types, except on the highest macro level(s).
But, an independent Kurdish State may be an idea whose time has come.
It would mean some existing country(ies) or another (Turkey, mostly, I seem to recall) giving-up some land, and it would probably involve some population-transfers from and to various regions, and could probably only be done peaceably via the UN, but it would be an interesting exercise in political creativity.
But nations (Turkey, or anyone else) don't give-up large tracts of land without a whole lot of convincing, and getting them (and others?) to agree might prove... well, let's say... problematic.