GREY:ARHTQ - Post by User
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redfish4on Sep 27, 2009 4:31pm
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RE:RE: Area at risk?
RE:RE: Area at risk?Zardamus your welcome
I thought you all could use a translator, but I'll post the translation here.
In retrospect, it is clear that the only occasion where the Kurds might have been able to satisfy their ultimate ambition was just after the U.S. invasion in 2003. But it would have taken this challenge to their only ally, the United States, a risk that neither Barzani nor Talabani were ready to run.
Fearing conflict with the Americans, they did not take Kirkuk and insured and an overwhelming Kurdish majority there when able to do militarily. Fearing a Turkish invasion, they have not dared to declare their independence. And now they can not do either, because Iraq has an army of new works and the budget of Kurdistan depends entirely on oil revenues sent to the North by the Baghdad government.
This is not necessarily a tragedy. A secular and prosperous Kurdistan, with its own language and its own institutions in a predominantly Arab Iraq, less democratic and theocratic, but would give a fair share of oil revenues and allow the Kurdish minority quiet, would already beyond the wildest dreams of previous generations of Kurds.
It's a dream still within reach, provided to resolve the sensitive issue of Kirkuk. And no need of Talabani and Barzani to this