At 05:50 PM 3/5/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>> >Likewise, Hitchens totally fails to consider the
>> >consequences of endorsing the formation of a
>> >Kurdistan. For better or for worse, such actions
>> >would be viewed as the US dismembering an Arab,
>> >Muslim, State.
>>
>> Not true. Turkey is not an Arab state; its a Turkish
>> state inhabited by
>> Turks. Muslim yes, Arab no.
>>
>> Damon.
>
>I think John's point is that dismembering _Iraq_ would
>be viewed badly, not dismembering Turkey, which (so
>far as I know) even the slightly batty Hitchens has
>not suggested.
Yes, that's exactly it.....
Obviously, if following a Gulf War II, a Kurdistan is established, it would
be established from the territory of Iraq. This would certainly be
considered the dismembering of a Muslim, Arab, State at the hands of a
Western imperialist.
Moreover, since Turkey is so vehemently opposed to the establishment of a
Kurdistan (given that they have far more Kurds than Iraq within their
borders), we would essentially be stabbing our most prominent Muslim ally
in the back.
JDG
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