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2015-03-12 Home Front: WoT

Rand Paul: Arm Iraq's Kurds and give them a country

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Well what do you know... and from a Libertarian of all people?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-12 02:15|| 2015-03-12 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 USJCS Chair DEMPSEY'S "OTHER POST-ISIS PROBLEM" besides Iran + Shiite Militias in Iraq.

* FYI WAFF > TURKEY'S KURDS TO HIT 50.0MILYUHN-PLUS [about 55% of Total] BY 2050 | A KURDISH MAJORITY IN TURKEY WIDIN ONE GENERATION!?

Looks like any post-ISIS/GWOT? Kurdistan may be much larger than the original, and by default???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-12 02:25|| 2015-03-12 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 About time.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2015-03-12 02:54|| 2015-03-12 02:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Not gonna happen.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-12 05:48|| 2015-03-12 05:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Arm the Philippinpos and let them defeat Japan. Yeah right. And for those who tell of Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor <<<<<<<< 9-11

Posted by JFM 2015-03-12 05:52|| 2015-03-12 05:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, it's not like we have to worry about losing Turkey.

Posted by Iblis 2015-03-12 10:24|| 2015-03-12 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Well we might not care about Turkey anymore. But it would sure piss off teh 0ne's new ally, Iran and we just can't have that now can we?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-12 11:21|| 2015-03-12 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 "The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they're being siphoned off and they're not getting what they need,

Why not fly arms directly into Erbil International Airport? Bypass Baghdad.

Like the Frankenstein monster, Iraq was one of those made up states in the early part of the 1900s. Originally, it was set up as a Sunni-dominant state. The Kurds having their own state would make as much sense as the hodge podge that is Iraq now.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-12 12:20|| 2015-03-12 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting idea, JohnQC. But we don't have to bypass the central government. Just use the Erbil airport and let the Kurds truck the weapons to Baghdad. Think of all the jet fuel we'd save! And create more local jobs for truck drivers!

Posted by Bobby 2015-03-12 13:06|| 2015-03-12 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Folks, you know I am the biggest booster of a free and independent Kurdistan. It would be the greatest thing to happen to probably the best Muslim subgroup in the middle east. But it screws with so many people, and bangs up the power politics in the region so badly that even if we try to force it, powers there will strangle the new nation in its cradle. Here's the problem: they are landlocked, and nobody around them wants Kurdistan to exist. Until that is addressed other than an air bridge, its going to be a show stopper.

Still, Ive been among the Kurds and I still think its worth taking the chance, eventually, to secure them a nation somehow. Maybe piss off the world, and let them ally with Jordan, the only Arab nation there that's even half way inclined toward a little liberty. Or better yet, ally them with Israel (heads explode all over the region including Israel and Kurdistan)

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-12 22:45|| 2015-03-12 22:45|| Front Page Top

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