Reply #85: The Kurdish issue is very difficult. [View All]

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I prefer not to get into it here, other than that I doubt
it will be resolved soon, unless someone undertakes to arm
and support the Kurds in a liberation struggle that results
in an independent state, an unlikely series of events. As
long as the Kurds are fragmented among three other states,
it will remain a problem.

Syria is in the Axis-of-Evil. What I see in the news is the
usual Good-Cop, Bad-Cop back and forth, mostly designed to
get Syria to give something for nothing.

I had a low and/or skeptical opinion of little Assad, but am
starting to think he is a better player than expected.

Shrub and his minions do seem more interested in Iran, but
peace is threatening to break out there too. If the Iranians
manage to put the Ayatollahs back in their place, things will
start to change fast there.