.STANDING AND FIGHTING
"Nice photo, isn't it? There are more at the ConflictPics link.It's a shame that as a Cuban American, I have to look to people like the Kurds for a good example of how a people should resist a regime. Right now here in in Miami there is a great chance to retake the island, castro is dead or dying, and all the Cuban American exile groups are on the take. Instead of taking the lead, their taking money from Washington to stay quiet and not raise a fuss during an election year, with the promise that Washington will take care of it all for them. I wonder what my Kurdish friends would say to that?
This photo reminds me of one of the posts at the DozaMe blog. Take a look over there at the "My People's Hope" post and listen to the music on the video there. It's beautiful, and I think I must have listened to it about 500 times while writing last night's post.
The song was written by the immortal Şehîd Hozan Serhad, and there is more on his life in an article from Kurdish American Youth.
Almost a month ago, on 19 June, I alerted Rastî readers to Ralph Peters' article, "Blood Borders," carried in the Armed Forces Journal. Now it looks like the Turkish media has discovered it.
There's a commentary on "Blood Borders" from Radikal, carried on TurkishPress.com in which we are told that the US's desire to establish a Kurdish state is nothing new. That's news to me, especially since there is rarely a mention of Kurds in American media. If American media were your main source of news, you wouldn't even know that Kurds existed. I remember getting overjoyed watching video clips of Kurds dancing during the first "Iraqi" elections just because it was Kurds finally being shown on major American cable networks.
When one of the al-Askariya bombers was captured, American media didn't say that Kurdish pêşmerge captured him, they said "Iraqi forces" captured him. What Iraqi forces? It was pêşmerge!"
Rasti
Probably something like this.
"Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead."
It's on days like today, I wish I were a Kurd.
posted by madtom at 7:40 PM
1 Comments:
I wonder what my Kurdish friends would say to that?
Well, I'd say, "be careful what you wish for," Madtom. :P
There are problems in the Kurdish world also, and it is certainly NOT a monolith. However, that also means that I can understand your frustration with those who are thinking only of themselves and not for the greater good of the Cuban people, in whatever way Cubans wish to define "greater good" for themselves.
I think it's important to remember that Washington has its own, peculiar interests and it serves ONLY those interests.
Foggy Bottom is not your friend, if you know what I mean.
Post a Comment
<< Home