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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
People seem to be overlooking the fact that it's the Kurds who Canadian forces are operating with in Syria, and that the Kurds are the American's closest allies in Iraq.
Do Western countries support them to the extent of carving out an independent Kurdish state by redrawing the borders of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq? No. That would be lunacy.
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The Kurdish groups are the best of a bad bunch. Their tactics are sometimes questionable, but at least their cause has a secular conscious.
An independent Kurdistan is just not feasible. They claim a huge swath of land, much of it resource rich and their settlements are not contiguous. Infrastructure connecting settlements runs through areas populated by other groups that have no interest in helping them form a state. They wouldn't even be a majority in their own country. Would a Middle Eastern Switzerland be possible? Istanbul is actually the largest "Kurdish" settlement by population, but it's not even in Kurdistan.
When nomads in central Asia were playing musical chairs for land, they held out for too long.