Reflections on Kurdistan, Iraq, and ISIS
In: Telos, Heft 171
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
Kurdistan is a free nation emerging from the fog of the Iraq War. Had Saddam Hussein not been toppled and had the sanctions regime, including the no-fly zone, been lifted (as the Europeans were pushing for in 2002), Kurdistan would be a wasteland today. Here, Salih asserts that Kurdistan flourishes, a flagrant counterexample to the received opinion and established dogmas in conventional Near East Studies departments. Adapted from the source document.