JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS IRAQI KURDS INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM VOTE! PART 1
'In theory every people, Jews, Kurds, Shites, Sunnis, Yazides, Turkomen, Arabs of all tribes, Europeans, Africans, Asian, et al, should have their own slice of the world's land mass to call their own. That they should be allowed to have their independence - from the owners of the rest of cake earth, and be able to live in peace and prosperity for millenniums.' In theory. But, in reality, that is not how it operates. In reality, the owners of the different earth lots do not live in peace for long. Instead, they encroach on their neighbours' lots, especially if they have more resources, if the grass is greener, as it were. They make demands on their neighbours and threaten them, if they refuse to give up some or all of their lots. And, in time, the more powerful plot or lot owners try to takeover the plots of others and create a monopoly, by means of war, if they have to. Which is why the opportunistic attempted - because it might still come to nou