Author: Emmunah » Thu May 26, 2005 6:35 pm
Okay, let's say you were king of the world and could change the world tomorrow. You would then unify all of Kurdistan. I know I would too!!!!!!
We are not kings or queens though, but we want there to be a Kurdistan right? The question I ask to you is...given all of the people that have died for thousands of years to make that, and in deep and humble honor of their memory, how many people will die trying to make this happen? Is there a way to make it happen without another million deaths?
You know the world doesn't care about deaths...and so everyone can find their death, but will that make Kurdistan? In the face of the realities of this day, when freeking Turkey, Ajirbajan and the Caspian oil line deal went through? Will Turkey have enough power to stop the loss of their "perceived" borders being changed? If every single Kurd were willing to stand up and fight, do you think Turkey would not fight and win? Do you think anyone would stop them? If so, why aren't they stopping these things elsewhere? If every Kurd stood up and peacefully demanded independence, do you think Turkey would slaughter them all? I give that 50/50 odds that they would. Who is going to stop the villages from being flooded by the new dam? Has "Human Rights Watch" or "Amnesty International" been able to change it? NO! Do I like that....F*K NO, NO, NO!!! Can I change it! NO!
What other way can there be a Kurdistan? What way that does not involved another milliion dead, but instead a million new houses, a million new jobs, a 100,000 new factories, a 100,000 kids lifted out of poverty, a million new computers, and a 100,000 new computer scientists? This is the Kurdistan that CAN BE...it's something we CAN DO. As much as my heart cries out for everything you are talking about, there is no way to have all we want.
You ask Kassem, am I willing to die to make Kurdistan free? I am willing to work myself to death to make A KURDISTAN! A place where all Kurds can call their own home! I only care that it is enough....not that it is all...because the Kurdistan that CAN BE is better than the Kurdistan that kills a million and can't be.
Taiwan will NEVER be China, no matter what....but the Chinese will never stop calling it China. Now they are talking of war, but there will never be a war, they are pre-occupied with too many other things, like they are selling an average of 1000 new cars a day in Bejeing to people who never had them before....people who had to walk, or ride a bike, or rickshaw. Taiwan is too interested in inventing things and education to do more than have politicians prattle on about China....the people just want to live up to their dreams, not to send their kids to die, not to try to fight a war with China that they could not win.
I want Kurdistan to be a place with a long, deep and honorable past that is treasured, but I want you all to be the heros of tomorrow and look up to the builders of lives and not the destroyers of lives. Be proud, but be visionaries...be proud, but be even prouder when the Kurdish encyclepedia is filled with great doctors, engineers and scientists. That's all I'm really saying. I would NEVER disrespect Kurdish history.
It is probably the thing that the US population is guilty of....history began when our ancestors got off the boat, it's something that gets inside your brain.
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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh.... at yourself.