"Looks like she could take the fight to Hillary, and dull the War on Women Democratic meme. But she will need a big breakout to make her a leading candidate.
How will we know she is a potential threat to Hillary? When national media starts digging into her high school years.
Carly versus Hillary -- could be interesting. IMA holding out for 'Go Daddy.' Better look'n, more spunk. A woman who made it on her own in a man's business world versus a woman who rode her husband's coattails her entire life and never accomplished anything."
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A woman who made it on her own in a man's business world versus a woman who rode her husband's coattails her entire life and never accomplished anything."
Um, yeah...no. Every guy Carly ever worked for will be trotted out to tell of how he helped her.
Mike
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[RUDAW.NET] Support for the independence of Iraq Kurdistan has received a major shot in the arm with the publication of a strong editorial on 'Kurdistan's right to secede' by the global and highly respected newspaper, The Economist.
The Economist, widely seen as essential reading for business and politicians, argues in its current edition that since the fall of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 'Kurdistan has crept towards de facto independence, with its capital in Erbil. While Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's maniacs are howling at the gates of Baghdad, a divorce cannot take place. But in due course separation would give the Kurds international protection from any violent Iraqi Arab attempt to reassert control. The Kurds want a country of their own. They have earned it.'
These articles bear the hallmarks of a writer with extensive experience and understanding of Kurdish politics. The editorial surveys the history of the Kurds, who 'have twice come close to fulfilling their dream, once after the first world war and the Ottoman empire's collapse, when they were promised a state by the treaty of Sèvres, and again after the second world war, when for ten brief months the Kurdish republic of Mahabad rose up in what is now north-western Iran.'
The editorial concludes that the Kurdistan Region is Iraq's 'only fully functioning part. Since 1991, when the West began to protect it from Saddam Hussein, it has thrived. In due course, it deserves its place in the community of independent nations.'
Drawing inspiration from the principle, promoted by America's President Woodrow Wilson a century ago, that nations should have the 'unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, it says that a 'country should be able to gain independence if it can stand on its own feet, has democratic credentials and respects its own minorities. To qualify, Iraq's Kurds should confirm (again) in a vote that they want their own homeland. As well as being economically and democratically viable, the new state must be militarily defensible and disavow any intention to create a Greater Kurdistan by biting chunks off Turkey, Iran and Syria. It needs its neighbours' endorsement. And it must settle terms with Iraq's government, including where to draw its boundary.'
It also argues that 'a sustainable economy is within the Kurds' grasp,' given increasing oil exports which could reach 800,000 barrels a day, worth $17 billion a year at today's prices. As for internal politics, the Economist opines that 'Democracy is established, though still rough-edged. Iraqi Kurdistan has regular elections, a boisterous parliament, an array of political parties and a raucous media. Certainly its courts are weak, its leaders' habits feudal, its journalists sometimes harassed and its human-rights record far from spotless. But it is more democratic than most of the region--and far safer than the rest of Iraq, even though the fanatics of Islamic State press against its long border. Suicide-bombings and atrocities of the sort committed by sectarian militias in Baghdad and elsewhere in Arab Iraq are mercifully rare.'
It concedes that the 'regional politics are trickier' because Turkey and Iran have long opposed to an independent Kurdistan carved out of Iraq. But Syria is 'hardly in a position to object to secession for Iraq's Kurds,' and 'Iran has forged a pragmatic relationship with them.' It adds that KRG relations with Turkey 'have warmed remarkably' and given that the Kurds of Turkey 'seem genuinely to have forsaken their desire for a separate state, seeking autonomy instead' that Turkey might accept an independent Kurdistan.
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The problem is Iran possibly has a great deal to lose in the creation of a Kurdish Homeland, as in most of NW Iran, almost as far as Tehran. Turkey could lose about the south eastern 20% of their country. So this could turn into 'who makes a deal first'.
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Both iran and turkey should encourage their kurds go migrate to the mew kurdish state. A lot will probably leave voluntarily.
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It might all work except for one things: the oil in the ground in Iraqi Kurdistan (and probably under the other parts of a potential greater Kurdistan. No legacy government will give up that rich prize.
Officially, the election on March 17 is among Israelis. Depending on how we vote, either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will remain in office and form the next government led by his Likud party, or Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni will form a government.
But unofficially, a far greater electoral drama is unfolding. The choice is not between Netanyahu and Herzog/Livni. It is between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama.
As the White House sees it, if Herzog/Livni form the next government, then Jerusalem will dance to Obama's tune. If Netanyahu is reelected, then the entire edifice of Obama's Middle East policy may topple and fall.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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