11 oktober 2011

Mr. Kissinger, We Are Sorry

I wrote the article in the kurdsih language, Rudaw magazine has been translated into English

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Kemal Kirkuki’s visit to the United States has stirred a debate in the region, with several MPs asserting that the purpose and cost of his visit should have been more transparent and discussed by the region’s Parliament.

When Parliament speaker and government ministers travel abroad on official visits and use public money, they should make everything public on their websites. People have the right to know how the country’s budget is used.

What is interesting to me in the Parliament speaker’s trip, however, is that he visited Henry Kissinger who is perceived as one of the masterminds of the collapse of the Kurdish revolution in 1975. On the Kurdistan Parliament’s website, it is written that Kissinger has said the 1975 events have caused a misunderstanding among the Kurds.

Does he think the collapse of 14 years of revolution and the killing and wounding of thousands of people and the destruction of a country is just a misunderstanding?

Kissinger was not a truthful person and everything he did in the region was in the interest of America and Israel at the expense of other people. I wish I knew what the Kurdistan Parliament speaker said to Kissinger in response to the statement.

What the Parliament website has written is just some kind of bemoaning. The speaker of Parliament shouldn’t have visited someone who wasn’t any less terrible to the Kurds than Saddam Hussein was, or at least he should have asked him to apologize to the Kurds before he passes away.

I don’t know if the speaker of Parliament has read the text of a conversation that was conducted between Iraqi Foreign Minister Sadoon Hamadi and Kissinger right after the collapse of the 1975 revolution.

In that conversation, Kissinger’s lack of morals is made clear; he doesn’t say anything good about the Kurds, not even once. He told Hamadi in as much: When we knew you (Iraq) was a Soviet satellite, we allowed Iran do what it did in the Kurdish areas, but now that we know you have solved that problem, we don’t need to look back anymore.

Even though the conversation between Kissinger and Hamadi is totally against the Kurds, one has to admit that Hamadi was a skilled diplomat who wasn’t willing even for a second to compromise on the Baathist and Arab agenda.

In the meantime, I should say, unfortunately, Kurdish politicians and their diplomacy very much echoes a line in a Fayaq Bekas poem that says: I have been your servant for 27 years.

That poem is very popular among the Kurds and in essence it explains how the Kurds have served the foreigner with their own food, water and clothes for years.

I see the Parliament speaker’s visit to Kissinger as the same as that poem, and an outright begging while the Kurds should have asked to put that man on trial.

If I were an MP I would have asked the Parliament speaker why he visited Kissinger, a man who no longer has any influence whatsoever on American and Middle Eastern politics.

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