ninme

‘Bout this business with the Kurdish Militia. Charles Krauthammer was just on Brit Hume, saying again just let ‘em rip, even if it does look like a civil war, because it already is a civil war, which he’s said several times.

I don’t see why they don’t absorb them into the Iraqi military as a separate unit. Put them through a little of the same basic training with the Americans that the other Iraqi forces have been going through, just for appearance’s sake, and treat them as a sort of Black Watch Regiment, Iraqi style. The Black Watch were raised from “loyal” (ahem) Scottish Clans after the first Jacobite Uprising, and remain a Scottish Regiment, despite the Scots’ historical tendencies to killing the English. When they’re sent into battle they’re not accused of staring a civil war. Granted, they’re not fighting in the UK, but they did, when they fought the Jacobites (which was called an uprising, not a civil war, not even a Scottish civil war), who, by the way, had a better claim to legitimacy than these insurgents. Why anyone still considers them Iraqis, I dunno.

Anyway, in a few (hundred) years, being in the “Kurdish Regiment” could be considered a really elite thing, something to be proud of. And if you’re going to exclude them just because they’re Kurdish, then I think you’re excluding them from being Iraqi, in which case, what the heck’s the point of any of this.

Disclaimer: I have no claim to expertise in this. If anyone wants to correct me, and explain the obvious state of events prohibiting this that I’m completely missing, please do so.