The Opportunity Before Kurdistan: A New Model for a Middle East Democracy

"(Memri.Org) By: Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli - Writing in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Iraqi columnist Khaled Al-Kishtainy invited the Arab world to "learn about the lessons of democracy from Iraqi Kurdistan." "At this time," wrote Al-Kishtainy in an article titled "The Opportunity Before Kurdistan":

"While the South [of Iraq] is stumbling in backwardness, reactionism and sectarianism, and [while] the Center [i.e., the Sunni Triangle] is drowning in terrorism and in-fighting, hope remains that the Kurds will raise the banner of freedom, rationalism, and modernism not only in Iraq but throughout greater Kurdistan and the Fertile Crescent. The road ahead should turn Iraqi Kurdistan into a torch for enlightenment and an oasis for freedom and democracy."

Al-Kishtainy concluded with a call to the Kurds to "light the candle of freedom, of rationalism and of the equality of women and their progress" before "darkness totally engulfs Iraq" and to "serve as the light for those who may have lost their path." [1]"
The Kurdisani

I'm going to let my "bet on the Kurds" just ride.