Sardar Aziz

In the issue of Thursday January 19 2006, Ross Frenett tried to

“unravel the Iraqi conflict”. He was questioning “victory of Iraqi what?” the part

that I am concerning about it more than any other, is the short paragraph

about Kurds. In general the article is not about Iraq but it is about using

and abusing Iraqi crises to attack others with different opinions. The

article is written by someone who belongs to the emerging new trend of

conservatives who as radical as the left. When we established this fact, then we

agree that the writer is cherry picking the events to serve his purpose.

Therefore the world in the eye of the writer is not a real world but actually is

an ideological world. Ideology according to French left (communist)

thinker Louis Althusser is a representation of the imaginary relationship of

individuals to their real conditions of existence. So the individual to

fulfil his or her purpose always evade the truth. As happened obviously

in the Ross’s article.Before dwelling on Kurds in Iraq; worth mentioning that there are very little differences between the New Right that emerging in Ireland,

(shoe shiner as Chomsky called them) which is in somehow a branch of a

Neo-conservative in America and SWP.  They are similar because of their

extremes; we learned from Joyce’s Ulysses; “Jewgreek is Greekjew.

Extremes meet.”  And also from Blease Pascal that too much light blinding us.

But the scary similarity is that both sides carry only one idea, “even a good

idea can be a little frightening when it is the only idea a man has ever

had”.

And it is known that many of neo-cons were Trotskyite at their early

age.

    The article goes “that’s not to mention the little problem of the

Kurds. Who hate every one, because, in fairness, everyone hates them. Do we

support the Kurdish state?” after the Said’s book “Orientalism”, no body should

ever allow him or herself to write in such a language. The language that

remind us of the clerks of the British Empire, (obviously the idea of American

empire, is welcomed by many, because American “they don’t take Iraqi

prisoner hostage and cutting his or her head on the internet”). First

the Kurdish problem is not ‘little’ problem, but it is the main problem in

Iraq and the entire middle east.Second the issue of hate; I am wondering where Ross gets his information. Why he not mentioning an example. Throughout Kurdish rebellion against despotic system Kurds never attempt any terrorist act. However the Iraqi state was killing children, women, elderly and levelling thousand and thousand of villages. We have no hatred to anyone, because what we simply do is fighting for our rights and our problems merely is with the central

government not with people. Right now in the city that I came from which

entire population are Kurds; about 12,000 Arab workers are living and

working without any problem.

“Do we support a Kurdish state?” It is an interesting question! Kurds

should have a state and they as American journalist Robert Kaplan put it

“deserve a state more than anyone else on the planet”. But West because of its

moral deficiency never supported a cause just for its humane reason; it is

support always either economical or ideological. We Kurds as everyone else have hatred, we hate; Anfal (genocide), we hate mass graves, we hate

dictatorship, we also know it is not the people who commit that but it

is a system which make them to do such a crime. Therefore we hated that

system and we supported the end of it. The Iraq war (as I supported and still

supporting it) ended dictator, a totalitarian system and now seems it

will be a lesson for the American to burry their imperialism dream forever

in grave. And above all there will be no more Iraq; that handmade colonial

creature.