Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Totten Visits the Kurds

Michael Totten reports for World Affairs Journal from dangerous, uncomfortable places I wouldn't go on a bet. What's more, he often does a good job.

Here we have a relatively brief column on the Iraqi Kurds, about whom he has nothing bad to say. Nothing, that is, beyond the fact that they aren't strong enough to defeat ISIS on their own. His sweeping recommendation echoes those of other writers:
Give them whatever they want and whatever they need—including recognition when they declare independence.
I don't see the Obamacrats recognizing Kurdish independence. A Kurdistan doesn't fit in their models for the region.