I do, it's about time the tyrannical oppression of the Kurds by the Turks, Syrians, Iraqi and Iranians stops.
2006-07-25 06:54:21 · 6 answers · asked by marceldev29 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I whole-heartedly support a Kurdistan. The Kurds are a wonderful people with a two-thousand year old culture. Saddam did his best to stamp them out and Turkey and Syria aren't exactly supportive host nations.
I consider my time in Iraq as helping to create a Kurdistan, not so much a free Iraq. Kirkuk is a nice city and when it calms down over there I would like to go back. The Kurds, despite the first Bush abandoning them in the first Gulf War, still love us for what we did for them.
They have a huge amount of oil in Kirkuk (7% of the known oil in the world), that's why Saddam wanted control there and thats why the rest of Iraq won't allow an independant Kurd controlled area now.
While I was there for a year, I met at least 5 police chiefs. They were all killed, but the next day another would take their place. They knew full well what happened to their predecessors and knew it would happen to them, but their sense of duty to their country was stronger. That's the spirit of the Kurds.
2006-07-25 07:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by justind_000 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Tough question. The Kurds in Iraq have it pretty good...but if they declare independence (and Iraq's central govt can't really stop them), then the Turks (and Iranians and Syrians) would come down on them pretty hard. Perhaps, if Iran and Syria start something with us, this can be their penalty. Then maybe the Turks can give up their piece in exchange for membership in the EU.
2006-07-25 07:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Brand X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not now.
Perhaps in a generation or two once they have shown the international community that they are worthy.
They should stay within Iraq for now, help make it better, and THEN if they still have grievances that can not be solved within a democratic framework, they should be allowed to separate if that is the true will of the people.
If America can't cut and run, then surely the Kurds can not either!
If they are not a representative democracy, the world does not need another hateful, uncompromising, distrustful country to add to the already crowded list that exist currently.
2006-07-25 07:06:12 · answer #3 · answered by aka DarthDad 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It also seems like the Kurds in Iraq are managing things better than their neighbors to the South. I bet it would go a long way towards ameliorating some conflicts over there, but I'm pretty sure the Arabs won't give up those oil fields without a fight!
2006-07-25 06:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Syria and Iraq they dont care becasue they dont have too lots historic previous yet IRAN AND TURKEY are 2 super international places and that they die for the call of their united states of america and no one can divide their land you have a suitable to be a federal area yet dividing from iran or turkey map its no longer possible in iran no one hates kurds as i understand and that they stay in very regular in iranian society and due to a few political kurdish communities who likes to apply weapon for freedom from time to time iranian millitary do military operation in kurdish villages and in those operations some harmless civilians could be die and that i'm no longer consider this style of issues
2016-12-10 15:24:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of. I think Iraq could be organized in the same way as Switzerland, which is a confederacy of more or less autonomous states. It is diverse in language and and religion.
The stronger more powerful the central government becomes the more reasons you have to rebell against it.
2006-07-25 06:59:58 · answer #6 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋