The Natural Map of the Middle East
11th August 2012
Pat Buchanan has a Blind Pig Moment.
The Middle East was sliced up along lines set down in the secret Sykes-Picot agreement. But with the Islamic awakening and Arab Spring toppling regimes, the natural map of the Middle East seems now to be asserting itself.
Good luck with that.
A Kurdish nation carved out of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran would appear to be a casus belli for all four nations. Yet in any natural map of the world, there would be a Kurdistan.
And they deserve it if anybody does. The problem is that authoritarian regimes (and their enablers in the West) won’t give up a spadeful of ground unless you pry it out of their cold dead fingers, and sometimes not even then.
August 11th, 2012 at 11:43
Dave Barry said it: “There will never be peace in the Middle East. Thousands of years from now, when the Earth is a burnt-out rock with nothing but microbes living on it, the microbes in the Middle East will hate each other.”