[forkinsocket]

He went on, “The Koran wasn’t written by God, you know. It was written by Arabs. The Arabs were imperialists, and they forced it on us.” This is a common belief among negligibly religious Kurds, of whom there are many millions.

[Farmer Dean]

Just give Omar a 9mm third eye and forget about him.

[Alberta's Child]

Just try to imagine, say, Secretary of State Podhoretz briefing President Giuliani on his first meeting with the leaders of the Baluchi­stan Liberation Army, and it becomes obvious that we may be entering a new and hazardous era.

He ain't kidding. LOL.

This article has to be one of the best assessments of the Middle East I've ever read.

[El Gato]

My high school social studies,(World History and Economics,among other things, who was BTW, one strange bird, always used the Kurds as an example of a people who should have a country, but don't. He used them as a counter example to the Palistinians, who aren't a single people, and shouldn't have a country, and also to some extent as a counter example to the Balkans.

The Palis were a problem even back then in the dark ages, which stradled the '67 "Six Day" war.

That was before Mr. L quit teaching, opened a restaurant in a small town, and then went really 'round the bend. He had some holes in his background that led some to suspect he may have been OSS or CIA, but I guess we'll never know for sure. I will say he was quite pleased when I showed up 3 years after graduation, in my AF ROTC uniform.

[gaijin]

The article starts out with a description of a Kurdish interrogator as a man hostile to Arabs in general, and Arab extremists in particular. I ended up loving the guy, since he struck an Arab prisoner in the face with the Koran, and called Mohammed's mother A WHORE.

The author of the article; does he like or dislike the Khurds? He HATE them. And he hates conservatives.

And The Atlantic is a liberal rag!

The first page of the piece was the best...

[SF South Park Republican]

At this, the interrogator smacked Omar across the face with the Koran.

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!11111UNO!!!1111

[Wiz]

Let’s give the Kurds independence and let them claim Kurdistan.