For this reason the three groups believe the United States works closely with those that they wish to eradicate. In addition the groups can easily infiltrate the nation and set up terrorist plans in this country because of the freedom of travel that has been allowed until recently.
The United States should never negotiate with any terrorist group with one exception. If the terrorist group wants to work to dismantle itself and begin to reeducate its members to release their terrorist mindset the United States should be willing to work with the group to facilitate such goals. When it comes to acts of terrorism however, the United States should stand strong and refuse to ever negotiate with them for any reason at all.
If the United States wavers and negotiates with a terrorist group, for any reason, it will set the precedent for future attacks in the hopes that the United States will be willing to negotiate again.
While much of the world's attention has been on the United States war on terrorism and the search for bin Laden it is important to remember that religiously-based conflicts have occurred for many years.
One such conflict is that of the Kurdish people.
The PKK has been considered the strongest revolutionary group for many years in the ara. The Kurdish population at this time is 25 million strong and it is mostly located in Syria, Iraq and Turkey. The region is called Kurdistan. Approximately 85% of that population is Sunni Muslim by religious faith.
The Kurds are persecuted worldwide as they become a nomadic people searching for a place to call home. The Turkish army alone has burned thousands of the Kurdish villages and refused to allow Kurds to sing or speak in their native language, instead insisting that they are taught to speak Turkish.
Tens of thousands of people have died in what is coined Kurdish conflict.
The PKK is the largest militant styled Kurdish organization that has a mission to protect Kurdish culture, tradition, language and people with whatever means possible and necessary.
The people who have a stake in the Kurdish conflict are of course the millions of displaced Kurds as well as the Islamic residents who reside in Turkey, Iraq and other nations. The primary nations who are involved with the conflict are Turkey and Iraq and Syria because each of their populations are Kurdish by at least 15%.
The objections of the conflict include the desire by the Kurds to speak their language and teach their children about their culture, history and traditions. They would ultimately like to become a nation of their own. In the conflict they are constantly having to fight to maintain their culture and the right to teach their language, beliefs and traditions to their children while living in borrowed lands.
The Turkish, Syrians, Iraqis and others that have been forced to give up their land for the Kurds to reside often resent their presence and their beliefs and they fight officially and individually to make the Kurds conform to their new residence and nation.
For one to understand the plight and problems of the Kurdish people one only needs to study the history of the Native American. Much like the Native Americans many years ago, today's Kurds are being stripped of their identity without cause.
I believe that the Kurds are deserving of their own nation-state but I also believe it goes more deeply than whether or not they deserve it. There is so much unrest surrounding the conflict while the Kurds fight to maintain who they are, and their host nations fight to strip them of it that allowing them to have some designated land and become their own self-governed nation would go a long way to bringing lasting peace to those regions.
Providing them with an area to set up as a nation would allow the conflicts to come to a halt. It is something they deserve as they try to preserve their language and history for their children and something that would answer the problems being encountered with the borrowed residential lands that they currently occupy in that area of the world.
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