[lbo-talk] Iraqi Independence In Action: Kurds Drill for Oil without Baghdad

[boddi satva]

What I had in mind was an independent Kurdistand that grew with our
military support and could become a magnet for oppressed Kurds. I
think rather than invading Iraq and heading straight to Baghdad
(which, militarily, was seen to require bombing infrastructure) we
could have invaded the South and the North and given the people who
already had a real political
consensus on living independently from Baghdad a start in building
governmnets (as was already developing in Iraqi Kurdistan) and
protected the population from Saddam.

This would have necessitated our embracing the Kurdish cause and
pissing off the Turks. And since Iraqi Kurdistan will almost certainly
become the center of Kurdish resistance at some point, why not nip the
problem in the bud by asking our friend Turkey to give up a little
territory and asking the Syrians and Iranians (who repress the Kurds
terribly) to give up relatively more. With some help from the Azeris
and the Turkomen you could start a nice little country that would be a
great place to run an oil and gas pipeline to Turkey through. I think
with a little pressure and some money spread around everybody goes
home happy.

boddi

On 12/15/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> boddi satva wrote:
>
> >Maybe it's just because I have a soft spot for the Kurdish people, but
> >I always thought that the US should have (on a pragmatic basis) made
> >an independent Kurdistan an important component in its Middle East
> >policy.
>
> So you'd like three or four countries to fall apart and/or go to war
> with each other?
>
> Doug
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