What is your take on the Kurdish question?

They should have autonomy, obviously.

Would we let Chinatown in NY secede from the Union? Just wondering.

If Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria were full-fledged pluralistic societies it would not be an issue.

The Kurds are just one of many many nations whose homeland was carved up through colonialism and the creation of hard and fast borders. It hasn’t worked out well in most cases.

@worriedguy No, we shouldn’t let Chinatown secede, but the US didn’t spring up as a nation-state around Chinatown. The Kurdish homeland has always been there, but they’ve been squeezed between much greater powers for centuries.

Maybe the Kurds need to start hijacking planes, attacking the Olympics, and sending women and children on suicide attacks?~~~~
The truth is that since the Kurds’ rivals are Persian and Arab (and all are Muslim), nobody gives a shit (and the anti-Semitic United Nations cannot wield its fake power). Too bad the Kurds don’t live near some Jews. Then we’d see hundreds of biased resolutions from the UN.

@worriedguy Yeah, dumb answer.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir That’s what I think French Philosopher.

I rather admire the Kurds. It wasn’t long after the fall of Saddam they formed a fair and just government. Even Though they were a severely repressed minority and suffered terrible war crimes they worked to get their region under control when the Arabs were suicide bombing each other.

I don’t we need to be nation builders for them, they already have one. We should support them including keeping our “allies, Turkey” from subjugating them. I suggest that our only role should be helping them keep their boarders secure and fighting on their side within the United Nations. Arabs seem to want to return to the Caliphs of the 12th century, brutality included. Kurds jumped right into the 21st century and it they should be supported by civilized nations. Turkey should not be allowed into the E.U. until they renounce the forceful suppression of the Kurds.

@Ron_C

AMEN!

I am with you Ron_C

@Kraken of course, I have had good ideas like this before. For instance, when Reagan ran the first time, I was a Republican and told others from my party that he and the people with him were a bad choice and I was really against his nomination.

Nobody listened and we see how that turned out.

@Ron_C I hope you are no longer a conservative as you see how they continue to destroy progress. If it weren’t for us liberals, slavery would still exist as well as all forms of racism and hatred + bigotry so I congratulate you on taking the first step toward being a caring member of the human race. (applauds). No, I am not gay nor do I approve of their lifestyle but I am not allowed to condemn it or else I would be a bigot. We need to learn to love one another no matter what we look like. OK you got me on the sexuality thing but race or creed should be irrelevant in regards to human relations.