It was only in the past few months that a new unity prevailed.But whatever the divergences among Kurds, however quarrelsome some of their leaders, and however sly many of their alliances, the one incontestable fact is their oppression by host governments who, in unreasoned fear of irredentism, often ban their language and culture.
Clegg gets to the bottom of it Nick Clegg is writing a book which, according to the publicity, will reflect on "how the politics of reason, evidence and compromise can survive at a time when grievance and unreasoned populism are on the march".
He does not say so, but I assume that the Liberal Democrats stood for "reason, evidence and compromise" in his world view; but who are the forces of "grievance and unreasoned populism" now running rampant, I wonder?
Later that day, Vladimir Tolstoy, Putin's adviser on cultural issues, described Meniaylo's appointment of Khalyuta as "hasty and unreasoned".
"When faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning," Thomas wrote in an opinion from 2005.
Mr. Sheen's grandiose rants on the nation's two leading morning talk shows — and via live stream on the gossip Web site TMZ — were more unmoored than most, but he showed all the usual symptoms of an insulated star with an unreasoned belief in his own invulnerability.
Nonetheless, "the ideas of the film are heartfelt, and they're borne out by personal experience, not based on some unreasoned belief," he said, adding that he comes from a family of scientists — his father was an astrophysicist — and is not generally prone to mysticism.
To take on the unreasoned, backward thinking populism we hear from Ukip and his right.
This instinctual, guttural theory of poetry's effect echoes Housman, who argued that poetry accesses a deep, unreasoned part of the mind.
I would suggest two particular effects of rhyme: rhyme makes experience from within the body and so can produce unreasoned intimacy; rhyme destabilises the hierarchies of sense and so lends itself to radicalism.
