Kurdish state in exchange for being the ground force against ISIS? Thoughts?

[underpants]

Granted:
They are already in the fight
Turkey (vitally important ally for us) will be dead set against it as will Iran, Iraq (barely an existing nation state as it is), Syria (uh....)
They can't do the whole job without real international material and military support
ISIS is a waiting game - can they govern? are they sustainable? - but they aren't waiting (assuming Paris really was an ISIS operation)

[MisterP]

1. 2016: we use Kurds vs. IS

2017: we don't like the Kurds any more and hire MeQ
2018: we like IS against the MeQ
2019: ????!!!!

[restorefreedom]

5. exactly. nt

[MisterP]

6. everyone we denounced as the ultimate in human evil we'd either funded or allied with after the

denunciation (Nusra, AQ in Libya), or both

it's very trying

[restorefreedom]

7. i keep thinking of the pic of mccain

with isis fighters (or whatever they were calling themselves then)

[MisterP]

8. or Duncan Hunter with the taliban

or the "I'm a Mujad Too" t-shirts back in the 80s

[restorefreedom]

10. ugh. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

2. That is the obvious solution but Turkey

will have non of it and will sabotage any such arrangement.

[underpants]

3. Yeah

That is the key

[LittleBlue]

9. That would be absolutely ideal

Unfortunately Turkey never allow it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. You've answered your own question - the countries concerned will be dead set against it

So, no, I can't see them deciding to do this.

[malaise]

12. Seriously these countries and their people are not your colonies

or toys. The West has created enough of a mess - get the hell out. No more American kids must die for this madness - no more innocent citizens in their homelands must be slaughtered.

[eridani]

13. Things are getting so chaotic that setting up the Kurdistan that the WW I victors--

--should have set up then might just be possible.

[flamingdem]

14. Yes I think they'll get something in return for all their sacrifices

but even then the leadership is not asking for separate state. They want integration with these incredibly progressive ideas. If it worked, wow, an amazing feat.

Fingers crossed for the Kurds, they are sane.