11-19-2015, 11:37 AM -
(11-18-2015, 11:43 PM)shaun.lawson Wrote: Nowadays (but not always throughout history), the Kurds are far more secular and far less religious than almost any other ethnic group in the Middle East. This makes them natural allies. It also makes the blind spot which the West has continually exhibited towards them quite breathtaking: and as the video showed, that blind spot is still going on. As a NATO ally, we should be able to tell Turkey to stop fucking bombing the Kurds, but we don't. Why?
Over the last year, thanks to American aerial support, no force on the ground has done more to contain ISIS and begin to push them back than the Kurds. They are heroes. It is extraordinary that we aren't doing more to help them. When the Syrian war finally ends, my earnest hope is that both Syria and Iraq (both of which are completely unnatural, unwieldy countries, forced together by British and French imperialists) are formally partitioned, and Kurdistan finally becomes an independent country. But as ever, Turkey, Iran and Iraq will all set their face against it, so heaven only knows how it happens.
Repped. Agree completely.