Is this funny or sad?
Update
Some people still didn’t get it, which comes because of the lack in diplomatic affairs information, Haitham from Sabbah’s Blog got it right and understood what I meant…..They think I am complaining about the flag? I don’t mind if Kurdstan have their own flag or national anthem or even their own army they have all the rights to do so, but this is the funny/sad part:
The man (in this case Talabani) (president of Iraq) visiting his hometown and his birth place (Sulymania) = (inside Iraq), the prime minister of Kurdstan region received him as an International visitor with an International diplomatic protocols, if you know or you don’t know but there are different diplomatic protocols for receiving guests and this protocol in the picture is deferent from G. Bush visiting one of the US states or T. Blair visit Scotland ….etc (notice the guards, they are holding the flags in a way that they are ready to be searched) and searching the guards occurred with International head of states visitors only, the officer behind salute in a way I bet you can see it from the way both men standing/walking that national anthems of “both countriesâ€? are playing in the background again this is in international protocols.
By the way did you ever saw the map of Iraq on the Ministry of Foreign Affaires web site? and asked yourself why Iraq is painted in Yellow color? please ask what I mean with this if it’s still not very clear.
If you didn’t get it I will help you: what you see in the picture is Talabani “His Highness” visit Kurdistan with the two flags of the “neighboring countries” Iraq and Kurdistan, official Ceremony, red carpet and all.
now you tell me is it funny or sad?
of her history, and since being artificially created as a modern nation by the UK, Iraq has never been able to accommodate a separate Kurdish entity on what was agreed to be its territory. Having said all that, and after spotting the above photo at “Baghdad Dweller“, I see this is also a symbolic and historical scene. Symbolic of TWO countries, and that Kurds will never ever live in one united Iraq unless maybe they change ‘Iraq Republic‘ to ‘Kurdistan Republic
[...] Having said all that, and after spotting the above photo at “Baghdad Dweller“, I see this is also a symbolic and historical scene. Symbolic of TWO countries, and that Kurds will never ever live in one united Iraq unless maybe they change ‘Iraq Republic‘ to ‘Kurdistan Republic‘ (God forbid). And historical because this scene will not be tolerated by Arabs in general. I see it as a starting signal for a new cycle of violence attacks and counter attacks. [...]