Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, that's history according to history. Supporting
Dudayev in 1991 is not the same as opposing the
national movement in 1991.

Look, mister
alienatethepublicwiththenameofmywebsite.com, I
actually know Chechens. Real-live Chechens. They live
in Moscow. I get drunk with them. They do not support
the jihadis.

I am not going to argue this you.

>         In July  2004, we are now informed that the
> majority of Chechens --
> indeed, the overwhelming majority of Chechens --
> opposed the national movement
> in 1991. Well, that's history a la Yeltsin &
> Putin... That's occupier's history,
> history written with a bloody bayonet. The Duma
> denounced Chechen elections on
> November 2, so they never really occurred.
>
>     Joseph Green
>     comvoice@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > I don't know enough about the issue to answer
> whether
> > it was popular or not. But you do not need to have
> a
> > majority of the population on your side in order
> to
> > have an indigenous uprising. The Chechen
> population,
> > for instance, voted overwhelmingly to remain part
> of
> > the Russian Federation (then, the Soviet Union) in
> > 1991. That did not prevent extremists in the
> Chechen
> > population from doing their thing, and the
> moderates
> > were either forced out or fled. I don't know if
> the
> > Kashmiri case is parallel or not.
>
>
>
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