Do not Seek Help from The Enemies
by Tashbih Sayyed
29 November,
2006
In my last column, "This is How Iraq Can Be Saved", I
had said that we ought to find a way to win the hearts and minds of the
Iraqi ethnic groups who have historically been victims of Sunni
Baathist tyranny. They are likely to control the future governments in
Iraq, so that when we are finally ready to pull out of Iraq, the
country that we leave behind is not an enemy but a friend. In support
of my argument, I had sighted the example of Iraqi Kurds who are
pro-Americans because they benefited from the U.S. security umbrella
during Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. According to Jae M. Kim, a student in the PhD program in Politics and who visited Baghdad recently ,
it is generally accepted that Kurds are pro-American because they have
enjoyed political autonomy and economic prosperity since the end of the
first Gulf War in 1991. Kim quoted Al-Haydari, who is deputy chairman of the Baghdad branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in her article as saying, "American presence in Iraq will be very helpful for the reconstruction of post-Hussein Iraq."
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