I do not think the point was that the successful Western backed coups produced a good, better, or desirable result.

Additionally I am not convinced that a independent Kurdistan would be a good idea.

I know Abdullah Öcalan has come under the influence of Murray Bookchin, and has had some very progressive ideas about how the politics of the Middle East should be structured. But in the event of the establishment of Kurdistan there is no good reason to believe it would be any less of a dictatorship than Iran, Turkey, or Dog help us, Syria.