Both Democrats and Republicans support Kurdish independence: Rep. Eliot Engle (D) On the one hand, when you look at some of these borders in the Middle East, and they were all done by the colonialists and I often felt that why should we be obligated to maintain those borders. Iraq is not a real state. It was slapped together. Youve got the Kurds, youve got the Shia and the Sunni who really dont really want to be part of each other, and so particularly the Kurds who have autonomy now, practically have their own nation, and probably will proclaim it very shortly. So my sympathies would be to say the Kurds: well, why should we suck you back into Iraq. You have the right to your own nation. In fact, no body has ever explained to me why the Palestinians are entitled to self-determination, but somehow the Kurds are not. I dont think thats fair, quite frankly. Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R) Let me just say that, as far as Im concerned, the United States should not be having to limit itself and limit what solutions we could possibly have based on what the British empire determined a hundred years ago and it all flows back to those people. So with that said, I would hope that we would be open to the situations like having an actual Kurdistan exist. The Kurds have always deserved to have their own national identity and until we do I have to believe that no kind of leadership that we could put into place in Iraq is gonna be successful. May be its too much, even if Maliki was the best it might not be enough, because that may be an ungovernable creation that our British friends gave us as a present when they exited as world leader.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:18:40 +0000
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