The Washington Times
LETTERS
Saturday, October 19, 2002/Pg. A11
Giving Kurds the shaft
I wish to comment upon the irony in "U.S. opposes Kurdistan" (Embassy
Row," Nation, Wednesday). While the United States opposes the 35
million Kurds having their own nation, we went to war against the
sovereign nation of Yugoslavia to ensure that all 1 million of Kosovo's
ethnic Albanians could have their own nation. (Ethnic Albanians in
Kosovo gained their majority by crossing illegally from Albania into
Kosovo and through multiple births by being allowed to have four wives
at one time.) There is something rotten in Denmark, or should I say
Washington?
Robert W. Pearson, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, is quoted in the
above-referenced item as saying "Neither we nor any other country has
the authority" to approve a Kurdish state. "We have heard Turkey's
concerns, and we respect them," he continued. We certainly didn't hear
Serbia's concerns before we bombed them back to the Stone Age, nor did
we respect the Serbian people when we approved an all Muslim, al
Qaeda-supported state in Kosovo for the terrorist Kosovo Liberation
Army. Nor did we have qualms over the killing of the remaining Serbs
(mostly elderly) in Kosovo, nor the ongoing desecration and destruction
of their medieval churches. Such crimes continue without one word of
condemnation from our illustrious State Department.
However, there is a solution. We either demand that Ankara comply with
a homeland for the Kurds or be bombed, just like we bombed Belgrade when
we forced them to comply with our demands regarding Kosovo.
Have you noticed that when Iraqis kills Kurds, we bomb. But when Turks
kill Kurds, that's all right because Turkey is our great ally.
STELLA L. JATRAS
Sterling, Va
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