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Originally Posted by powerclown
Not necessarily. Maybe the use of the term 'Kurdistan' is a sticking point. I was referring to a Kurdish territory in the federalist sense - a part of Iraq, yet independent in its own internal affairs, as Detroit is within the United States, for example.
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Ayatollah Al-Sistani has repeatedly denounced any attempt for Kurdish autonomy apart from participation in a national iraqi government. Given his sway in Shia politics, i think that suggestion is DOA. I don't know if you're making a crack about Detroit, or if you're downplaying Kurdish nationalism, or being generous about local power in American politics. But i don't think that that's what the Kurds are longing for, the Turks are afraid of, and the Shia desperate to prevent.