How To Solve (part) Of The Mideast Crisis

In order to get to the solution, there's some backstory that needs to be presented.

Let's face it, the middle east is a shitstorm of war, poverty, religious oligarchy, dictatorship, tribal feuding, and radical regression that won't be leaving anytime soon. Unfortunately, it seems that nearly every world power wants (and has) their hand in the mix, making this somewhat isolated area now a worldwide issue. The powers can't slow the storm, thus making things either worse or moderately better.
In the meantime, though, there are were bright spots of greed prosperity seen in a few mideast countries - namely, the United Arab Emirates and the city of Dubai.
Dubai used to be a podunk trading town until some time ago, when greedy pigs intuitive foreign investors decided that it was a great place to build tangible insanity wonders of the modern world in the form of "the biggest", "the tallest", "the largest", and "the greatest".
Dubai's economy grew at a blazing pace, making China's economic growth look pre-pubescent in comparison. Sadly, Dubai fell just as quickly as it grew, and the many projects started in Dubai with foreign investors who loaned money from the city were hit hard from the global economic recession that began in the U.S. Due to the fact that Dubai's government legislation is still stuck in the 1600s, citizens (foreign or otherwise) can be thrown in to debtor's prison - something that all civilized countries have gotten rid of. So all of those foreign investors jumped ship, leaving behind not only their residences & cars (unlocked with keys in the ignition, I might add), but anything that didn't fit on a plane or a ship.

Thus leaving Dubai, once a city in frenzied construction, now a ghost town with unpaid debt.

So, what happens now?

No one seems to know. In the meantime...

MEET THE KURDS!

  Many of us have heard about the Kurdish people, but most of us have little to no idea about them. Here to explain is Janet Ritz of the Huffington Post, of which I will quote to bring us up to speed:

"...

Kurds were once a mostly nomadic people living around the mountainous regions of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Mostly Sunni (there are Kurdish Shi'a, Alevi, Yazidi, Jews, Zoroastrians, Christians, etc), they are known to hold their Islam with a light touch. Promised an autonomous Kurdistan under the terms of the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, they saw it rescinded under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The resultant division of their historical homeland between Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria left more than 25 million Kurds as the world's largest stateless minority. This has led to an an alphabet soup of alliances as the Kurds struggle to survive in a world of shifting allegiances.

There is pressure from within []: the Kurdish desire for independence self-suppressed by the aforementioned pragmatism could escalate through conflict with Turkey -- a move that would be sure to draw the large Kurdish minorities (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia...) into the fray. This is what Bill Clinton might have been trying to say, when he said that troops may be necessary in Northern Iraq and what Barack Obama may mean (just guessing here), when he says we must be as "careful getting out [of Iraq] as we were careless getting in."

There is also the problem of Kirkuk, the oil rich city in Northern Iraq that the Kurds see as their Jerusalem and the rest of the Iraqis and the Turks see as the oil prize of the region. Kirkuk may be the actual tipping point between the interested parties that could lead to further destabilization.

A personal anecdote about an evening I spent with a Kurdish family as part of research for a book: I was interviewing a local Kurd when he announced to his wife that I was joining his family for dinner (ten minutes before dinner). The serving spoon that landed on his head led him to follow her around the rest of the night asking what he'd done wrong (he never did figure it out).

The food was among the best I've tasted -- Kurdish cooking is amazing -- the hospitality warm and inclusive in a night that devolved into the extended family taking out musical instruments (an important part of Kurdish culture) and all of us getting drunk on pot-stilled whiskey from which I will likely never recover. I fell in love with the Kurds that night and, while I don't know what will happen out of the mess we've made of the Middle East, I do know the Kurds are a key to either war or peace. I hope it's peace.
 ..."

 According to the Kurds, this is the territory they were promised:

Yet even today, this country does not exist - and the Kurds have no true homeland to call their own. They exist in other countries, by their laws, and are despised by those countries. Valued less than the citizens of the other countries, the Kurds have been fighting for themselves for a very, very long time.

This leads me to an essential - and novel - solution:

GIVE DUBAI TO THE KURDS.

Yep, you read that right - GIVE DUBAI TO THE KURDS. No one wants to move there now; the place is a virtual ghost town. Since the Kurdish people have been nomadic for so many years, they know how to create a market on the fly - and they don't have debt.

The Kurds would respect the land and wouldn't accumulate debt due to their cultural and social traditions; the skills they developed over the decades will come in handy for turning Dubai around. It would literally stabilize and bloom again - but this time, it wouldn't be as dependent on foreign investors.

Of course, leaving Kirkuk would pose a problem for many Kurds, but it could be used as a selling point to either the UAE, Iraq, U.S. corporate pigs investors, or other interested parties as a way to help finance the move to Dubai.

The UAE wouldn't like this very much (since they're KURDS, you know), but all they could do is whine, pout, start an embargo and hope that the same military force it has on loan (a.k.a. the United States Military) won't either a) abandon all military posts in the UAE, leaving it extremely vulnerable to outside forces or b) take Dubai and declare martial law.

The other middle east nations may not take the U.S. military action lightly, but to them, anything done to get the Kurds out of their region pretty much evens the score.

A win-win for all!!