So...What's Your Plan B? By Gerald A. Honigman
As National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice spoke at the U.S. Institute of Peace on August 19, 2004. Some of what she said was morally indefensible…real politik at its worst.
While she was delivering what has increasingly come to be her favorite words of wisdom regarding the necessity of creating a 22nd state for Arabs (and second, not first, in the original borders of the Palestine Mandate as Britain received it on April 25, 1920...Jordan created out of the lion's share in 1922) at the Institute of Peace, she totally shot down questions relating to Kurdish anxieties and national aspirations in Iraq. Keep in mind that before the imperial Arab conquests in the 7th century C. E., the Kurds had lived in Mesopotamia for millennia. Right now, the majority Shi'a need the Kurds to help offset determined Sunni opponents and suicide bombers.
Truth be told, the only source of stability America can count on over there comes from the Kurds...the very folks our State Department has full intentions to shaft yet again as it has disgracefully done too often before.
The proportion of Kurds to Turks in Turkey is the same as Arabs to Jews in Israel proper...one fifth of the population. Turkey also dwarfs Israel geographically. Yet this doesn't stop the Foggy Folks from insisting that another, hostile, adjacent, independent Arab state emerge right on Israel's doorstep--in close contact with that potential Arab fifth column in Israel. State routinely uses this as a key argument, however, against the birth of a Kurdish state...along with angering its Arab buddies, of course. "Destabilizing" and so forth...
Regardless, those fears cannot condemn 30 million people to a perpetually stateless condition.
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