COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SIMON TISDALL IN THE
GUARDIAN
"The Kurds of
Iraq have been loyal allies. The west must repay its debt"
Kurdish independence
is under threat from powerful neighbours. The west should not stand by and see
this dream of self-rule crushed
Loyal allies? Loyal to what? American imperialism in the
region? Debt for what? For helping America make a bloody mess of the place?
'...the Kurds have
proven loyal and valuable allies in the struggle against Islamic State"
What struggle with ISIS is the writer talking about?
The real one involving Syria and Russia or the shadow-play
version involving the US and its coalition?
Yes, the US finally did some real bombing, after a few years
of fake bombing, against ISIS in the last little while, but that was really
only in preparation for its fallback plans in the region, having failed in
Syria with its support for folks like ISIS and Al-Nusra.
There is nothing heroic or principled or even ethical in the
American effort. And use of that loaded and outdated term, “the West” is just
an appeal to sentiments from the Cold War that have no application here.
We should be grateful for an invasion which killed about a
million people and destroyed a prosperous state for a generation? I don’t think
so, but I’m sure Tony Blair agrees.
It did pretty much manage to destroy Iraq, and Iraq's being
split into mini-states was anticipated years ago in an expert book.
You see, the US wants to separate the truncated Iraq from
its oil in the Kurdish area. It also wants to put this oil at the disposal of
Israel. And it wants the Kurds in Syria to join in, truncating that state too.
The author is right that the Kurds have been badly treated,
for sure, but one of those historically mistreating them was the US itself.
Henry Kissinger succeeded in getting them to revolt against Saddam with
promises and aid. When Saddam ruthlessly suppressed them, the US just watched.
I normally support referendums, but this one has no
legitimacy. You see, Iraq is still occupied. Its affairs are manipulated, the
US having built a fortress-like embassy/CIA operations center there which is
the largest in the region. A vote has no legitimacy under those conditions.
Moreover, the combination of Turkey, Iran, and Syria are
going to make it very hard for such a state to succeed. They each have their
own reasons for opposing it.
By the way, if loyal allies” automatically deserve
something, then the subsidized and trained mercenaries posed as radical Muslims
of ISIS and al-Nusra surely also deserve something?
Lunacy begets only more lunacy.
