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bemildred

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4. I have noted elsewhere that Ankara on the other hand is most anxious to be seen protecting them.

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 23, 2014, 11:49 AM

Aug 2014

And one supposes Turkmenistan takes an interest too. But this is not a new crisis, it's more the UN taking note of an existing crisis, since the Turkish press has been worrying about them for some time.

But it all goes back to the failure of the Iraqi state, and the various former Iraqi subject polities taking up arms to fend for themselves in the absence the protection the Iraqi state was supposed to provide.

Edit: and of course the new piratical insurgencies rising up to fill the vacuum. That black flag is very appropriate.

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U.N. Warns Of 'Possible Massacre' In Northeastern Iraq [View all] bemildred Aug 2014 OP

A Serious Ethnic Complication Here, Too, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2014 #1

Nothing quite like a power vacuum to expose these little animosities. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #2

True, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2014 #3

I have noted elsewhere that Ankara on the other hand is most anxious to be seen protecting them. bemildred Aug 2014 #4

We Kicked The Keystone Out Of An Arch, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2014 #5

But... But.... unhappycamper Aug 2014 #6