Who are the Kurds? Most of us have heard about them but don’t know who they are. Are they a race, a religion, a country? As we see from the following example, even Europeans who are much closer to the Kurds still do not have a complete understanding of the Kurds or the middle east in general: In the West, the left and liberal minded people in general, especially in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon …showed first 75 words of 2003 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2003 total…Kurds acknowledge that the U.S. help would be just a ploy to get an advantage on Iraq. Some believe that the U.S. is the Key to the Kurdish question in the Middle East. This is a very optimistic idea because of the complexity of the problem, “unless the Americans succeed in developing a coherent and consistent Middle East policy, one should not expect consistency or predictability from the Middle East and the Kurds.”23