Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

Chapter III
Kurdistan And The International Policies
The line of ideological and political division of the
cold war in the aftermath of the World War II was
extending throughout the world as a deep trench with no
hope of any bridges between the two sides!! The line
was extending from Berlin and the German problem to
the middle of Europe (Czechoslovakia and Hungary) then
to the Balkans, and Middle East (Kurdistan and the
Palestinian question), then to Asia and the struggle for
the Indian continent and the Indian ocean, then to Indo-
China and finally ends up in Korea. This long zigzag
line had masses on both sides in constant clashing. On
the one hand the United States of America was heading
the capitalist system and on the other hand the Soviet
Union was heading the communist system. All the other
powers outside this ideological and political division had
to choose where to stand. So, military alliances and
political coalitions were established. At the time there
was some kind of deterrent preventing Saddam to some
extend from igniting destructive wars. That deterrent
was nuclear force. The situation changed step by step.
At first there was a possibility that Saddam could cause
a world war even with nuclear weapons present. However,
after huge developments in the destructive force of such
weapons and their transportation means, such as by long
range missiles and possibility of hiding them in deep
oceans by caring them on submarines or directing them
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