Kurds make a bid for freedom,

Or at least, thats what I think Kurdish militiamen are ultimately trying to accomplish. By drawing attention to themselves in the global media, they are trying to gain support and sympathy. They have no desire to remain a part of Iraq - the Iraqi flag is regarded as a symbol of their genocide.

I could be wrong about this and I very well may be.

This article from Time is quite interesting, detailing the political implications of Turkey being drawn into Iraq.

...Turkish public fury has now found a second target in the Kurdish regional government of north Iraq, which popular opinion in Turkey has accused of harboring the PKK.


I have to wonder, what's the major difference between a political faction enabling and possibly harboring militant opposition groups and a political party or candidate indulging the interests of otherwise questionable groups in order to gain political capital and support.

Iraqi Kurds appear to be relying on Washington to intervene, but the U.S. is caught between a rock and a hard place. North Iraq is the only relatively stable region in that country and the Kurds there are its only allies. Washington has repeatedly urged respect for Iraq's sovereignty. At the same time, however, Turkey is one of the biggest U.S. allies — the only mainly Muslim NATO member and a key player in a volatile region that Washington cannot risk alienating.

America doesn't dare risk alienating its allies at this point, as it is slowly losing political legitimacy on a global scale. As long as it remains an occupying military force in another nation, it is dependent on global support to achieve whatever twisted ends they have envisioned. Does anyone even know why we're there anymore? Why we were there in the first place?

Are we allowed to be angry? Should we be entitled to voice our opinions? A democratic political system says yes, but a minor opposition voice says no one is particularly interested. How do we fix this? Are some of these horrible things that are happening due, in part, to our apathy?

What a world.