...Without a State of your own, without a central authority, without a feasible and realistic plan for defense that does not include reliance on outside nation states, and only deferring to the ‘individual’, nothing can be expected to be accomplished in any real sense....
Obviously. That's why we're still a British colony.
The problem is, the Kurds are playing on a level playing field, but their enemies - Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran - are not. Those countries can raise armies through taxes, and even have the U.S. sell them them weapons to use against the Kurds. And they even have allies to help them fight the Kurds - each other, and probably NATO as well. The Kurds could fight one, or maybe even two countries, but they can't fight all of them. And absent someone to resupply them, they can't fight for long.
We missed a chance a hundred years ago to form Kurdistan, when we were drawing up a map of the Middle East after WWI. We missed another chance after the Iraq invasion to help the Kurds set up an independent, autonomous state within Iraq, and we just missed another chance to do so in Syria, because we didn't want to make Turkey angry.
We didn't create this mess, but we sure didn't do anything to prevent it, either. The truth is, we owe the Kurds a favor for helping us in both Iraq and Syria. The Kurds lost ten thousand people fighting ISIS and Assad, while we lost about a dozen. There may not be a moral thing we can do, but we shouldn't have chosen the most immoral thing to do. We should take this opportunity to help the Kurds set up an independent Kurdistan. Set up a no fly zone, and give the Kurds the arms and the training they need to stay independent. It's only right.
Onward and upward,
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