I am a cooing hawk.
I considered myself a conscientious objector (not a pacifist) when I was BOrg - how clever we all were with our turns of phrase. Anyway, I am finding the Kurdish people and culture really interesting, as are so many cultures in the area are. I have my Dad's diary from WW2 - I am compiling his history of the North African campaign. There's a similarity with the Allies' road to Tunis in late 1942. Anyway it makes GW2 seem familiar. I do hope our troops do their business as surgically as possible and get out soon. Tunis got nasty and bogged down for six months - my Dad left for Italy 10 months after that. A lot of the players are the same - the French sulking because they didn't get picked as team captain. But in 1942 they (Vichy French controlled colonial troops in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia ) where shooting at the Allies for a few days and when they had negotiated something face saving the French were back in the game on the Allied side.Vichy France itself was occupied within 12 hours by the Germans, suprisingly absent in GW2. The casualties of the 1 million men who passed through North Africa would be considered unacceptable today. In WW1 my Grandad was stationed in Mesopotamia - I know nothing about his time there, it's a shame I never talked to them about their experiences before they died. Anyway I liked this site. And I thought you might too.
http://www.itnet.org/kurdhistory.html
Peace, soon as possible please
Glen James
looking forward to see buster, onacruise, bikerchic, sphere, newboy and david w and julie and bernadine and another bro but that's as far as my memory goes, April 5