Mosul is free from IS

[pErvinalia]

I suspect your analysis of being a tad simplistic.

[Tyrannical]

Yay, we can send all those asylum seekers back so they can help rebuild.

[Feck]

When are going to start being nice to Kurds ? I mean we have used them to fight many of our battles it is time we drew some lines on some maps and made them a country

[Hermit]

When are going to start being nice to Kurds ? I mean we have used them to fight many of our battles it is time we drew some lines on some maps and made them a country

Recreating Kurdistan would involve chopping bits off Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Not gonna happen. And anyway, once those poor, oppressed Kurds regain nationhood, which in my opinion they have every right to, they'll become just another fucked up Islamic country governed by firebrand Mullahs and medieval style warlords with vassals brandishing AK47s and RPGs out to conquer as much of each other's and foreign territory as they can get away with. In short, SNAFU.

Kurdish-inhabited area by CIA (1992)

[DRSB]

When are going to start being nice to Kurds ? I mean we have used them to fight many of our battles it is time we drew some lines on some maps and made them a country

Yes, I gave the credit to the Iraqi army but the Kurds also served on all fronts! The Kurds are amazing people. They are also very secular. Hurrah to the Kurds!

[NineBerry]

But they are socialists!!!

[DRSB]

But they are socialists!!!

Yes, there is a tendency for secular people to become socialists.

[pErvinalia]

Enemies of freedom? We ought to bomb them!

[DRSB]

Socialists tend to consider themselves egalitarian, hence liberal.

[pErvinalia]

i.e. enemies of freedum!

[mistermack]

When are going to start being nice to Kurds ? I mean we have used them to fight many of our battles it is time we drew some lines on some maps and made them a country

Yeah, brilliant idea. It couldn't possibly go wrong.
They did it with the Jews, and it's been a spectacular success.

You certainly have great wisdom. Peace prizes all round.

[Svartalf]

Iraq is mostly faced with a fait accompli, but Iran, Turkey and Syria are all dead opposed to the emergence of a Kurd state that might have pretentions to parts of their territories.

[pErvinalia]

Fuck em. The Kurds get a homeland or we start bombing shit again!

(By "we" I mean - Merka).

[Svartalf]

time to bomb Turkey, and put the ottoman back in their real place... the main problem is to bomb without destroying oodles of historical treasures, with which the country is rife.

[pErvinalia]

Bomb everything!