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Jeremy on December 1, 2005 - 12:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Iraq's neighbors also fear the possibility of Iraqi Kurds using revenue generated by oil wells to fund an independent state that might lead the roughly 20 million Kurds living in Turkey, Iran and Syria to revolt.

This is another potential problem.

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LevinK on December 1, 2005 - 5:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Actually this is THE problem.
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Dave Cohen on December 1, 2005 - 6:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I wish it were but unfortunately, there are some other things to worry about including but not restricted to a civil war between the Iraqi Shia' and the Sunni Arabs after the inevitable American withdrawal.
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LevinK on December 1, 2005 - 6:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Iraq will become 3 independant states, it becomes more and more  inevitable - both US and local interests intersect on this.
Classical Balkanisation (or Romanisation maybe) in action. THE problem are the Kurds which by themself are THE problem of Turkey. Of course there will be a lot of blood to spill on old-style oil oooops... border issues, but the alternative is even more bloody.

Anyhow forget about oil form there in the next XXX years. Such young, unstable quasistates are uncapable of providing basic security, not to mention prosperity for their citizens or businesses. What they produce is mainly poverty and terroism.

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Madman on December 1, 2005 - 10:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
If memory serves correctly, Iran has a significant Kurdish population that they would prefer not to get to 'uppity'.
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