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[nutronjon]

Yes, and the Kurds are voiceless. I didn't realize this, until your thread and googling stimulated by your thread. Thank you

Notice what gave the Arabs a voice, oil and figuring out they can control the price of it. This is why Reagan slashed domestic budgets and poured money into military spending, granting arms to mid east countries and destablizing it. The UN does not give voice to those who can not seriously hurt those in control of the UN.

I hate it when people say the UN acknowledged Israel therefore it is agreed it has a right to exist. Right, the UN did not recognize Arabic as a language when those in power decided to give a chunk of Arab land to the Jews.

Right now the US is owing to the Kurds, because the Kurds have been used by the CIA to rebellion against Sadam and give the US a power base in the mid east. See how this works? Find the weakest people and aline with them, because they want your strength, and you want them to increase your power in their region. Problem is, the US is on good terms with Turkey and the Turks are claiming land that was part of Kurdistan, so the Kurds are attacking the Turks. Now what does the US do, considering it wants to be on good terms with people on both sides of this conflict? The US's power hold in Iraq, depends heavily on a good relationship with Kurds, and the Turks have strong capitalistic, democratic institutions which we want spread through the mid east. As long as humans settle their difference with war, that is what they will get, and that makes the UN less than ideal.