http://rudaw.net/english/opinion/240620161
If Brits weren’t happy with EU why should Kurds be with Iraq?
Britain, as independent and sovereign country voted to leave the European Union in order to get their independence and sovereignty back. They left a union that was prosperous, gave them a free market, free travel and free access to an entire continent. They still left because they wanted to make their own policies, their own laws instead of being told what to do by politicians in Brussels.
Many people in the UK and around the world weren’t happy to see Britain go. They believed there were great privileges for Britain in the EU, but the Brits still voted to go and no one could stop or deprive them of that right.
So why should anyone be unhappy to see the Kurds hold a similar referendum and say goodbye to Iraq? Iraq is not the EU. It is not prosperous. It is not democratic nor is it pluralistic. It has no respect for the rule of law and has no courts to make sure human rights are respected. Not only does it not give its citizens free travel and access to the whole country. It is in fact displacing and uprooting its citizens and cleansing entire areas of their inhabitants.
Like the Brits the Kurds want to be independent and decide their own affairs and make laws that suit their people, their culture, their traditions, their worldview and even their climate. The Brits in the EU weren’t completely powerless. They still had their own policies, rules and regulations as well as economic system. But the Kurds in Iraq are shackled. Baghdad has no respect for anything the Kurds do. It is blocking their oil exports, their airports, their share of the national budget, their share of arms supply and most recently all exports of poultry and farm products from the Kurdish north to the rest of the country.
(Saw this coming ... )
If Brits weren’t happy with EU why should Kurds be with Iraq?
Britain, as independent and sovereign country voted to leave the European Union in order to get their independence and sovereignty back. They left a union that was prosperous, gave them a free market, free travel and free access to an entire continent. They still left because they wanted to make their own policies, their own laws instead of being told what to do by politicians in Brussels.
Many people in the UK and around the world weren’t happy to see Britain go. They believed there were great privileges for Britain in the EU, but the Brits still voted to go and no one could stop or deprive them of that right.
So why should anyone be unhappy to see the Kurds hold a similar referendum and say goodbye to Iraq? Iraq is not the EU. It is not prosperous. It is not democratic nor is it pluralistic. It has no respect for the rule of law and has no courts to make sure human rights are respected. Not only does it not give its citizens free travel and access to the whole country. It is in fact displacing and uprooting its citizens and cleansing entire areas of their inhabitants.
Like the Brits the Kurds want to be independent and decide their own affairs and make laws that suit their people, their culture, their traditions, their worldview and even their climate. The Brits in the EU weren’t completely powerless. They still had their own policies, rules and regulations as well as economic system. But the Kurds in Iraq are shackled. Baghdad has no respect for anything the Kurds do. It is blocking their oil exports, their airports, their share of the national budget, their share of arms supply and most recently all exports of poultry and farm products from the Kurdish north to the rest of the country.
(Saw this coming ... )
