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It behooves the world to have a lasting peace with Iran but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind. It'd be bett

It behooves the world to have a lasting peace with Iran but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind. It'd be better to focus on giving the Kurds a Kurdistan in the Northern part of Iraq to call home. I'd bet they'd be great allies to the West.

wfunction 10y ago
> but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind. As if that's not happened in Western societies?
- krapp 10y ago
  Western societies improved a great deal after the dominance of the Church was broken.
  - wfunction 10y ago
    Shoot, I completely missed the word "religious" in the original comment! I totally deserved the downvotes...
AndrewKemendo 10y ago
Yes this is a great point - though I'm not advocating for any consolidated religious power. I don't think Iran would really be a good fit for that anyway, as the political-religious combination is fairly recent and was an affect of major political polarization as the whole region started gaining power through oil trade. The Kurds are an amazing and resilient group that have been an incredible ally to the west. I don't know any group it's size who has been more historically oppressed, marginalized and killed with almost nobody paying any attention to it.