Comments on: Syrian conflict threatens to fracture Iraq

By: Blacksoda

Blacksoda — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:49:17 +0000

After the way Iraq has been behaving after our departure (too buddy buddy with Iran), I say we support the Kurds in partition. Or rather, tell Iraq that if they don’t get in line they lose the Northern half of their country along with all that oil revenue. We will prove our point by planting a few American bases there.

Personally the Kurds have always struck me as much better friends, I say let’s show them what happens to America’s friends…give them the Kurdistan they’ve always wanted (without pissing off the Turks).

By: JFKY

JFKY — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:57:13 +0000

rbj on December 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM

Colonialism, yes, but not only British/French Colonialism…a lot of the boundaries are based on the Ottoman Empire’s boundaries, imposed.

By: rbj

rbj — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:52:07 +0000

Well, given that the borders as they currently are in the Middle East are not organic, but drawn by the British and French, sooner or later there was bound to be a fracturing. As long as Israel is safe, let the rest of them kill each other. Though it would be nice if the Kurds finally get their own state.

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:02:35 +0000

hawkdriver on December 28, 2012 at 9:01 AM

Indeed!

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:01:07 +0000

hawkdriver on December 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Chicago street smarts – yeah, I’ll grant that. What a way to run a country!

OldEnglish on December 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM

But I don’t give up. We don’t give up.

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:52:56 +0000

hawkdriver on December 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Chicago street smarts – yeah, I’ll grant that. What a way to run a country!

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:45:06 +0000

Smart Power!

OldEnglish on December 28, 2012 at 8:37 AM

A troll schooled me yesterday. Everything that turns out good in The Middle East, we give them credit for. Everything that turns to crap, they claim the obama administration has no part of. Or blames George Bush for.

They really do have smart power by controlling the media though. It’s what allows them to get away with a consulate being overrun, doing nothing about it and not testifying in hearings because, “you bumped your head.”

By: BigGator5

BigGator5 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:44:23 +0000

*drinks coffee*

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:40:10 +0000

It’s going to get uglier. I have a lot of Kurdish friends from Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and a smaller area called Suri Rash. They were the throngs of civilians welcoming Coalition forces as liberators that the media wouldn’t show you on the news. You could walk their streets without weapons. But after the years of Sadam, they’ll probably do anything they can for more autonomy as in the article.

I wish for the sake of their own country and footing in Iraq, they’d let this play out by the Syrians themselves. I do believe before it’s all over though, it’s going to get much worse regionally.

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:37:42 +0000

Smart Power!