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Article: Let's talk Turkey. (argument that northern Iraq should become part of Turkey)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 17, 1990
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ASSUMING, as one must (the alternative being too depressing to contemplate), that Saddam Hussein will be given his comeuppance, the question then arises how the menace of Iraq can be eradicated from the Middle East for a long time to come. By a happy chance, the Iraqi dictator himself has shown us the way, with his declaration that the invasion of Kuwait was prompted by the noble aim of wiping out the "artificial" frontiers imposed upon the Arab world by the imperial powers, frontiers whose only purpose was to divide the great Arab nation. Good enough: let's begin with the frontiers of Iraq.
Up until the First World War the territory making up the present state ...