Category Archives: Kurdistan
Kurdistan
The Kurds are making life difficult for the fiction writers attempting to present Iraq as a unified nation. Iraq is (at least) three nations, if nations are to be organized around common ethnicity, religion, or language and culture. You doubt that these are important? How then to explain little places such as Kosovo (capital: Pristina; […]
Kurdistan
There is one successful result of our toppling Saddam Hussein: Kurdistan. The Kurdish nation, established in fact if not as recognized by the United Nations, is fully functional, and, better yet, friendly towards us. We’ve let the Kurds down, and hard, before. It should never happen again. Not because they are friendly; that’s just a […]
Live and let die
Here’s a must-read column by Spengler in the Asia Times. Concerning our “friends” the Turks, and, more generally, Iraq and the entire Middle East. There’s a lot in this column, but let’s start with the Turkish fit in response to a non-binding resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives: News accounts link Turkey’s threat to […]
One man’s terrorist…
…is another’s freedom fighter. Case in point: the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. First off, let’s be blunt: the PKK is a terrorist organization, and operates to terrorize the Turkish government into acceding to Kurdish nationalist demands. They have done this by, among other things, killing innocent Turks. The PKK has been supplied and generally […]
"It’s not a dream. It’s the other Iraq"
This is the tagline of a PR campaign meant to engage the hearts and minds of Americans. The front-page story in today’s WaPo is only slightly sarcastic, and the biases of the writer (or perhaps the editors) are evident: he doesn’t especially like the Kurds or think that they are deserving of a homeland. First, […]
