Ladybird: Barzani’s unachievable dream of a Kurdish army

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Ace Mideast Correspondent Ladybird delves into the issues, others fear to tread:

Dur­ing his meet­ing with US Army Lt. Gen. Michael Bar­bero, Barzani said: “one of my dreams to see a uni­fied army of Kur­dis­tan”, a direct reac­tion came from Maliki’s spokesman Al-Dabagh say­ing: “This will remain a dream”.

In his last arti­cle on Asia Times “Maliki makes his move on Kirkuk issue”, Sami Moubayed argued that Maliki will Barzani’s dream come true.

But for these rea­sons, Barzani’s dream is not achievable:

Last infor­ma­tion from Kur­dis­tan showed the rise of Barzani’s KDP influ­ence sta­tioned in the Arbil, on the other hand the decline Talabani’s PUK influ­ence, in the Sulaymaniyah.

Despite the increase of Brazani’s influ­ence, both par­ties agreed to share the power in the Kur­dish region based on the following:

- Brazani to lead the Kur­dish gov­ern­ment, and Tal­a­bani to take the Iraqi pres­i­dency post.

- Shar­ing the secu­rity and mil­i­tary ser­vices. Pesh­merga unites led by Barzani to con­trol Arbil (west Kur­dis­tan), while the Pesh­merga unites led by Tal­a­bani to con­trol Sulay­maniyah (East Kurdistan).

Since Barzani will be the commander-in-chief of the new formed Kur­dish army, many Talabani’s Pesh­merga mem­bers will shift their loy­alty to the pow­er­ful Barzani side. Barzani’s terms and con­di­tions to cre­ate the uni­fied Kur­dish army, will weaken Talibani’s posi­tion and his party.

There are many ques­tions, which will remain with­out answers:

What is the def­i­n­i­tion of the “enemy” accord­ing to the Kur­dish army? Is it the Turk­ish army, the Iran­ian or the Syr­ian army, or is it the Iraqi army? Cont...