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| Spengler: How I learned to stop worrying and love chaos |
| 2017-09-28 |
| In the Weekly Standard, one Dominic Green writes that "there is no reason why an independent state in Iraqi Kurdistan should destabilize the region." Mr. Green means well--he supports the Kurds, as do I--but the root of our problem lies in our misguided desire for stability. Of course a Kurdish state will destabilize the region. That's precisely why we should support Kurdish national aspirations, although we may have to take care to keep the control rods in the fission pile. Our problem is that we have diplomats and generals who don't want to make waves, and we face opponents who know how to shift the burden of uncertainty onto us. At a twenty-year horizon neither Turkey nor Iran can be stabilized, for demographic reasons I have detailed in Asia Times. Iraq and Syria, the twin products of Sykes-Picot colonial state-construction, cannot be put back together again. What Vladimir Putin understands well, and we refuse even to consider is that the question isn't whether chaos, but whose. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |