Re-establish the Ottoman Empire?

[Lancer]

Give Iraq to the Turks, the only representative moslem government in the region. They get the oil, and the problems. The Kurds would have to have some ability to self govern, perhaps like the Scots in GB, or the native americans in the US.

...assuming what we're doing now falls through, an assumption I'm not ready to make...

[Heerscher]

Yes and while were at it lets 'reunite' Austria and Hungary in the kingdom of Austria-Hungary

[germanos]

Ignoramus

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[St Leo]

The new capital of the Ottoman Empire is in Brussels.

[Kropotkin]

Yeah, sounds like a great plan. Beside the small fact that your reasoning has no connections with reality whatsoever.

[JohnT]

Wow, Lancer, looks like the fish are biting today!

[mrmitchell]

I think we should rid Africa of things like "nations" and "borders" and return it to warring trade kingdoms and tribes.

[VetLegion]

Ottoman empire was more tolereant than Christian kingdoms of the day.

/troll

[Ramo]

Byzantium will ownz joo!

[Geronimo]

Who cares if it's a troll this could be fun!

Consider the fact that currently about as many kurds live in turkey as Iraq and that it is considered an impossiblity to give them a little nation state of their own. So as long as we accept that national borders need not have any connection to ethnic/cultural borders *why not* append iraq onto turkey and carve up the kurdish gordian knot by establishing yet another state which owes its borders to some obscure historical politcal connection. Look how long it has been since taiwan was truly politcally united with the mainland!

[David Floyd]

Yeah, and let's bring back the concept of city-states!

[Az]

to David Floyd's idea.

Haifa uber alles.

[Lonestar]

We have to include Syria and Lebanon in the New Ottoman Empire.

[GePap]

ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG!

All bow to the mighty new Khan, who shall ride with his Mongol hordes and recreate the largest land empire in the world!

[Imran Siddiqui]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!