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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
An independent Kurdistan is just not feasible.
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There already is, in effect, an independent Kurdistan.
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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.
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This is both ignorant of local politics in the area, and completely removed from both their political goals and from the history of modern nations.
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When nomads in central Asia were playing musical chairs for land, they held out for too long.
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The current political map of Middle East was drawn by western colonial powers and has nothing to with "musical chairs".
Also, Kurds have been settling down and ruling lands for at least a thousand years.