Comments on: Wars, civil and/or religious: Part III (nationalism and Iraq)

By: Natalia Vodianova

Natalia Vodianova — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:48:39 +0000

Hi there…I Googled for learning language russian, but found your page about Wars, civil and/or religious: Part III (nationalism and Iraq)…and have to say thanks. nice read.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:34:34 +0000

If all we get from OIF, is our Kurdish allies, the sacrifice in blood and treasure would have been worth it.xfgg

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:45:40 +0000

If somebody is still more interested in topic of Iraq and nationalism than in futile polemics with trolls, read this:

Kurdistan – The Quest for Statehood

By: Nimrod Raphaeli
MEMRI
October 25, 2006 – No. 298
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA29806

By: pete

pete — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:14:56 +0000

Harry and Red

When I posted news articles in the past showing the growing violence in Iraq it was to point out the increasing costs of a response out of proportion to a threat. The war in Iraq according to our National Intelligence Estimate has made the small Islamobogey threat into a slightly bigger one which is just what your post above supports. Thank you.

Don’t hurt yourself climbing the learning curve.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:27:14 +0000

“Unlike the Nazis, Islamist Fascism (or Islamism, or whatever) uses terrorism in combination with diplomacy to gain power because they have no real military power to speak of.”

Actually, the Nazis started out exactly that way… a band of unruly terrorist brownshirts, not even a decent weapon to their named, who discovered the value of diplomacy and made war on all of Europe with an army they built right under the noses of the peacenicks.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:38:40 +0000

“Unlike the Nazis, Islamist Fascism (or Islamism, or whatever) uses terrorism in combination with diplomacy to gain power because they have no real military power to speak of.”

By: harry

harry — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:00:26 +0000

Thanks Red. I thought is was time to give ol’ petey a dose of his own medication. Whether or not he takes it is up to him.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:55:05 +0000

Returning to the theme of Kurdish nationalism and its importance to future of Iraq, I want remember old (year ago) Neo’s post with this quote:

According to Rubin’s article, written before the Iraq war that deposed Saddam, many Kurds were already expressing approval of Israel and studying the country as a model for their own autonomy and liberation. Victims of persecution and genocide themselves, they could identify. What’s more, they despised the Palestinians for their support of Saddam. The older generation of Kurds remembered the absent Iraqi Kurdish Jews fondly, and even the younger generation were able to listen to Israeli radio, watch Israeli TV, and access Israeli websites, unlike the inhabitants of the rest of Iraq.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:05:31 +0000

BTW, the author Amil Imani is a Zoroastrain (The real Iranian faith before the savage muslim armies conquered Iran) who knows all to well how Islamofacism operates. His ancestors and mine and the Zoroastrian religion was almost wiped out and our people ethnically cleansed when the Arabo/Islamic armies invaded and occupied Iran and forced everyone to convert to Islam or be killed. Burning of cities to the ground to culturally cleanse any sign of Zoroastrian identity was common practice. This eventually led to thousands of refugees who escaped to India (The Parsi’s (Persian) mass Exodus to India). I recommend “The History of Persia by Sir Percy Sykes” to understand what barbaric cruelty the people of Zoroastrian faith, namely Persians, have had to endure under Islamic rule.

The second occupation of Iran by arbo/muslims was in 1979. At least that’s the way I see it.

By: Red

Red — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:47:39 +0000

Harry: Thank you for responding to our resident troll. Although, I don’t think he would bother to read any of the links you’ve provided. I sometimes wonder whether he is actually a Person or a software program primed and activated at random intervals…LOL

The left seems to have this built-in incapacity for not being ablt to think beyond their noses.