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The Kurds simply want to be left alone, but everyone over there goes out of their way to try to stomp on them. Arming the Kurds is not like arming one group of mooslim fascists to fight another group of mooslim fascists - the Kurds are religiously diverse. I'd arm them in a heartbeat.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence