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Originally Posted by Vulcan
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I'm not sure 'we' can change any hearts and minds, I tend to think that 'they' will have to settle the issues without us, I can see efficacy for providing air support for the Kurds and arming the crap out of them, regardless of how much that pisses off turkey, but I don't think we can do much else, we're a bull in a china shop over there, pretty much everything we touch turns bad, we just don't understand the issues, history or depth of the region well enough,
Like Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries unfortunately I suspect the region will go through several decades of ethnic cleansing and border redrawing no matter what anyone does.