Posted on Jul 3, 2015
The Kurds and Kurdistan. Is fighting terror their only interest?
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The Kurds are some of the fiercest fighters in the Middle East. I have had the pleasure of working very closely with them. But just as the Middle East is complicated so are the Kurds. There are all not allied as many think. The PDK and PUK have allied against Iraq in the past to defend their homes in Iraq. They are the Iraqi Kurds. The are supported by the US and are supplied to some extent by us.
Now this isn't the case of the PKK. They are the Turkish Kurds and are a terrorist group that has openly attacked the Government of Turkey. They have even mortared a Turkish military base recently. They are insurgents. But when ISIS came they created a new entity called the YPG, the Syrian off shoot. I will say that these groups only have their own interest in them. US forces have been attacked by likes of the PKK.
As we are going to find out. Once these groups take land they aren't just going to give it back to Iraq. They are fight for keeps. They are using this to gain control of land and finally create the nation of Kurdistan.
Kurdistan is a nation that only extincts in the hearts of the Kurdish people. Kurds aren't arab and don't really have a country of their own. They do control an autonomous region of Northern Iraq but they not officially recognized by any other nations.
Now this isn't the case of the PKK. They are the Turkish Kurds and are a terrorist group that has openly attacked the Government of Turkey. They have even mortared a Turkish military base recently. They are insurgents. But when ISIS came they created a new entity called the YPG, the Syrian off shoot. I will say that these groups only have their own interest in them. US forces have been attacked by likes of the PKK.
As we are going to find out. Once these groups take land they aren't just going to give it back to Iraq. They are fight for keeps. They are using this to gain control of land and finally create the nation of Kurdistan.
Kurdistan is a nation that only extincts in the hearts of the Kurdish people. Kurds aren't arab and don't really have a country of their own. They do control an autonomous region of Northern Iraq but they not officially recognized by any other nations.
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Amen, these guys deserve their own state. If I would love to see a sovereign nation in the middle east, it would be a sovereign Kurdistan.
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I am still holding out to go and visit there when I am an old man. I think by that time Kurdistan would be the only stable choice.
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SFC Nikhil Kumra
Hah I thought I was the only one that thought about doing that.
I was thinking more Disney Baghdad.
I was thinking more Disney Baghdad.
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The days of any country going to war strictly for the moral good of the world are loong gone. I am no expert on the Middle East, but I spent a long time with the Kurds and I don't just mean being in their area during a deployment. One of our Blackhawk sky gods was from there and those tribal people are loving, caring, and hard core courageous badasses (and they are awesome cooks!) In my extremely limited knowledge of them, based on interaction and not having a PhD, they want to be left alone. They want to rule as more like a family than that of a corrupt government or one that has to chop off heads to stay in power. Of course everything was translated and taught by someone from the prominent tribe, so I hope I'm not embarrassing myself. I'd like to sa that they would make an awesome ally if given their own country and the natural resources within their borders. But hey, they might start seeing those Almighty Dinars (lol) come rolling in and go just as scoot scoots as the rest of them. Given the situation, they are the only legitimate 'power' in the area that commands any respect in my book. But with any tribal group, their memory of tribal disputes go back a millennia.
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The terrorist fight is more out of necessity than pure desire to fight. This is a Warrior Culture and one that has been fighting for generations!
The challenge for an autonomous "Kurdistan" is that it is another landlocked middle eastern country which means they would be dependent on other countries for imports and exports...some of the thinking is quite similar to the Pashtunwali way of thinking, and something we (westerners) have trouble putting into practice (no matter how much we say we understand!)
The challenge for an autonomous "Kurdistan" is that it is another landlocked middle eastern country which means they would be dependent on other countries for imports and exports...some of the thinking is quite similar to the Pashtunwali way of thinking, and something we (westerners) have trouble putting into practice (no matter how much we say we understand!)
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I think the Kurds are fighting for there independence (i.e. secession) from Iraq. I am not sure if the map is correct because after I left there in March, there was a good feeling that they were not as fired up to take Mosul. Irbil seems to be their metropolis. They are well-organized and seem to have adopted many western commerce practices which explains why they're better funded and organized than the rest of the country.
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