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Originally Posted by smoothpops

Did anyone else catch the "ask me anything" done by the Kurd who was in the region, today? it was fascinating, and gave me (slight) optimism that stability can be achieved in (northern) Iraq.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment..._half_an_hour/

This is a good read, which why I quoted it to give it more visibility. Thanks.

Btw, Genghis Khan is an interesting combination of things.

On one hand his strategies... There are not a lot of words for it. Gruesome.

On the other hand, he was well known to have religiously and ethnically tolerant as well as meritocratic policies. He is also said to have attempted to create an empire where "a single woman could walk safely from one end of the empire to the other with a sack of gold in his hand". (This quote is neither exact or necessarily true, but it's not out of line with his policies either.)