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Kurds support for the Americans is not an
unconditional love story
24.12.2007
By Shafiq Shemzin - opinion
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Rice
to Kurds: “Forget History”, American madness or
ignorance in Kirkuk?
December
24, 2007
NEW YORK, Shafiq Shemzin, (ekurd.net), --
US state minister Rice visited Kirkuk last week,
holding a meeting with its ethnic minorities. Rice
recommended, finding peaceful solutions and “not to
care much about history”, they had to move on.
In her statement she only means the Kurds, who
supposedly attach excess value on the atrocities
done by Saddam in Kirkuk province and the
Arabisation. It is just history. Well, how ignorant
and shallow is the FM of the most powerful nation.
She emphasized that there is a serious orientation
of making the province a region of its own.
Again and again Americans prove their ignorance of
cultural and historic sensitivities. You simply
cannot draw parallels between USA and Middle East.
ME with its continuous history is different than the
500 yrs old America.
It is not up to the American whether the Kurds
should get back Kirkuk or not. Kirkuk is part of our
geography and history. It is the shrine of our
ancestors. Some simple-minded Texans and Yankees
cannot push their will on us. American forces in
Iraq are just muscles without brains.
Kurds support for the Americans is not an
unconditional love story. We also have the means to
seriously harm American interests. There is a saying
in Iraqi “A wet guy is not afraid of rain”. The
Kurds have seen the worst circumstances, and they
are hardened people to make the shift fast. So any
reverse policy against the Americans wont change
much of Kurds status. But will have tremendous
effect on the Bush Administration.www.ekurd.net
The Kurds of 2007 are
different than the Kurds before 2003. We have built
a wide network of sympathizers across the American
and European intelligentsia. So a drawback in the
relation with the Kurds in Iraq would have only
serious impact on the administration of Condi and
uncle Bush.
I think the Kurds should start trade their support
for the US in Iraq. Kirkuk is a red line for us, US
should live with that reality even if it is not in
her political agenda. Kurds should also prepare for
the worst-case scenarios and even face American
troops in Kirkuk or other parts of Iraq, God Forbid.
There is no such a thing as compromising on your
family’s home and history.www.ekurd.net
And hopefully our
leaders do not sell the issue easily by filling
their deep pockets with American dollars.
Shafiq Shemzin.
You may reach the author via email at:
shafiqshemzin(at)windowslive.com
Kirkuk city is a
Kurdish city
and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region, the population is a mix of majority
Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and Turkmen.
lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
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