If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.
Christopher HitchensTags: morality autonomy iraq iraq-war royalty kurdish-people al-khalifa-family bahrain kurdistan statehood
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was ‘a basket case’ before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere.
2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA’s plan to kidnap and murder General René Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger’s urging and with American financing, just between Allende’s election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him ‘Doctor’ is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion—‘I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible’—suggests he may have been having the best of times....
3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger’s, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. ‘Spare me the civics lecture,’ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions.
4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with ‘deniable’ assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: ‘foreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.’ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred.
5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: ‘The Israelis when they go into Lebanon—when was the last time we protested that?’ A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth.
It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough.
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ئهگهر ته خو درێژ کره سهر عهردی، تو نهشێی لوما ژ وی کهسی بکهی یێ پێ لته د دانیت، وبزانه کهس نهشێت ته کێم کهت، ئهگهر نه بهاریکاریا ته بیت.
Jiwar Chelkyتو بتنێ بهرپرسى ژ خوشیا خو. ئهگهر تو بو خو خوشیێ پهیدا نهکهی، تو کارێن خو ئهنجام نهدهی، ته باوهرى ب خو نهبیت، تو حهژ خو نهکهی، ل هیڤیا کهسێ نه به بو ته ڤان کارا بکهت.
Jiwar Chelkyهندى دلێ ته یێ ب خهم بیت ب گرنژه؛ گرنژینا ته دێ گرنژینێ ل سهر لێڤێن خهلكى پهیدا كهت، وب وێ گرنژینا ل دهڤ خهلكى پهیدا دكهى، دێ خهما خۆ سڤك كهى و ژ بیر كهى.
Jiwar ChelkyYê bash ageh ji bashîya xo nîne ji ber hndê yê bashe. Yê xrab yê xirabe çinkî divêt yê bash bît.
Jiwar ChelkyTags: kurdistan kurdi bashi xirabi
Demê te ji dil tshtek bvêt o kar dikey bu wî tshtî, hemî rêk dê bu te vebn o gerdon dê harîkarîya te ket xo heta dîwara jî dê bu te bn dergeh.
Jiwar ChelkyTags: kurdistan gerdon jiyan serkeftn
Ne hêle axftnên xelkê te damay biken o te torre biken, çinkî wan ew di vêt, o demê di bînn tu têkçoy ew dilxush di bn, çnkî te armanca wan bu bi cih îna.
Jiwar ChelkyTags: kurdistan
ئهگهر مێشك كار نه كهت، ههبوونا گهلهك كهل وپهلا چ مفا نينه. كورد دبێژن : ”رێبهرى ژ رێنجبهريێ چێتره.
Jiwar Chelkyئاستهنگ نهشێن ته براوهستينن..
ئاريشه نهشێن ته براوهستينن..
خهلك نهشێن ته براوهستينن..
بتنێ تو خو دراوهستينى ودبى رێگر د رێكا خو دا.
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