‘Catastrophic’: Egypt’s Sisi warns Iraqi Kurd secession would splinter Mideast

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/07/catastrophic-egypts-sisi-warns-iraqi-kurd-secession-would-splinter-mideast/



‘Catastrophic’: Egypt’s Sisi warns Iraqi Kurd secession would splinter Mideast
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 7, 2014 9:56 EDT

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned the independence of Iraq’s Kurdish region would be “catastrophic” and cause the Middle East to splinter along ethnic and religious lines, newspapers reported Monday.

A Sunni militant offensive that drove soldiers out of northern Iraq last month has emboldened leaders of the country’s three-province Kurdish region to push for an independence referendum.

But Sisi said such a move would be a disaster for the region.

“The referendum currently demanded by Kurds is nothing… but the catastrophic beginning of the division of Iraq into small rival states, starting with a Kurdish state that will grow to include lands in Syria on which Kurds are living,” Sisi told Egyptian newspapers.

[DetlefK]

1. Iraq and Syria are done, it's time to look forward.

Unless somebody starts to put some serious boots on the ground to stop this Arab-eating meatgrinder (hey, Arabic League!), ISIS will stay in command of eastern Syria and western Iraq for at least the next 10 to 20 years to come.

1. The war in Syria has raged too long, too many atrocities have been committed by the Assad-regime, the political climate is poisoned. There will be no peace in Syria until one side is dead. And by dead I mean dead.

2. Splitting Iraq into three countries was pondered for a short time during the Third Iraq-War, but it was deemed unfeasable as it would have left the Kurds and Shiites with access to oil and the sunnis without access to oil. THE ONLY HOPE FOR IRAQ is for Maliki to accept the sunni offer of splitting Iraq into three federal states, giving some autonomy to the Sunnis and Kurdes. This would allow the iraqi Sunnis to switch from a military to a diplomatic approach: They would no longer need ISIS as an ally to achieve their goals because they would get them through negotiations. Then the Sunnis could join forces with the regular iraqi military in this war. Add in some aid from Iran and Saudi-Arabia and ISIS will be driven out of Iraq within 10 years.