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It is quite troubling to observe President George W.
Bush’s blithe treatment of his ever-loyal Kurdish
ally’s concerns.
The Kurds deserve to democratically reside in an
independent nation of Kurdistan. Why must all
authority within the current borders of Iraq be
centralized in Baghdad when the primary inhabitants
of that unstable Middle East enclave are born of
three substantially divergent cultural perspectives?
A three state solution would solve so many problems,
avoid an inevitable civil war and indeed further
America’s presumed democratic aims.
The present Iraq could be equitably divided into
separate sovereign Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish states,
each allocated living space and wealth in proportion
to their respective populations. The nascent nation
of Kurdistan could have as its capital the fossil
fuel rich city of Kirkuk, allowing it to become a
vibrant secular democratic socio-economic force in
the region.
America’s ally Turkey alas would need to accept that
fact. Choices must be made. Maybe an acceptable Bush
administration official could grease the skids a bit
for the tolerant mostly secular Turkish state’s
eventual acceptance into the European Union? Skilled
diplomacy can do wonders.
A prescient Israel should enhance its relationship
with the likewise secular tolerant democratic
Kurdish people without degrading its own less than
ideal friendship with a Turkish nation perhaps
licking its wounds. Naturally, this might require a
Houdini-like effort unless goodwill prevailed in the
aforementioned diplomatic arena.
Nevertheless, all civil societies need to forthwith
find ways to resolve their differences. The
ever-metastasizing scourge of Islamic Wahhabi-infected
fundamentalism has declared war on the perceived
infidel i.e. everyone else. Such insidious ilk must
be eradicated and it will require the cooperation as
well as fortitude of all civil societies to prevail
against those desiring to ravage the planet and
thwart the evolving sanity of our species. Far too
much is at stake not to succeed in this endeavor.
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