Thursday, October 06, 2005

Justin Raimondo on the Kurdish Situation

Raimondo has an interesting article where he questions whether the Kurds are the unalloyed "good guys" we have been led to believe.

One thought that does leap out at me in this article is that he seems a little unfair in his assessment of the campaign to "Kurdishize" Kirkuk by replacing Arabs with Kurds. As I understand it, a large number of those Arabs were put there and Kurds were driven out during Saddam's reign. Therefore, I am not certain why re-ethnic cleansing the area would offend Justin more than, say, removing Jewish settlements from the West Bank and Gaza.

On the other hand, he is correct, I think, that empowering the Kurds will not necessarily lead to a wonderful, humane, liberal-democratic Iraq. My feeling on the Kurds: they may be "on the right side" as a whole, but that doesn't make them "good guys."

That is all.

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