StrategyPage has a long post on the top ten major threats to the US.
Well, if ISIS and the Islamocrazies get worse, the Philippines will suffer a lot more than the USA, because we already have them here. and the Moros have a history of aggression against the rest of the population: Cebu still has forts built by the Spanish, not to control locals but to protect locals against their "pirate raids" that had decimated the area, so this goes way back.
Romero specifically mentions the successful defense net of baluartes built in Southeastern Cebu by the long-serving Augustinian missionary of Boljoon, Fray Julian Bermejo, OSA, most of which survive to this day. Due to the exigencies of the moment — the massive decimation of coastal town populations by Moro slave raiders — Bermejo became a military tactician bar none and even created a Christian army of sorts ready to go to battle in the seas. Read more: http://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/132498/the-baluartes-of-cebu#ixzz55iPwnWBo
as for the Kurds: BBC article here:
They have been there quite a long time and have long wanted to have their own land.
n the early 20th Century, many Kurds began to consider the creation of a homeland - generally referred to as "Kurdistan". After World War One and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres. Such hopes were dashed three years later, however, when the Treaty of Lausanne, which set the boundaries of modern Turkey, made no provision for a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status in their respective countries. Over the next 80 years, any move by Kurds to set up an independent state was brutally quashed.
Why all the fuss about Israel and a Palestinian state, while not mentioning Kurdistan vs the Turks and Iraqis who kept them subjugated?
this was despite Wilson's insistence that peoples should be able to make their own decisions about this.
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