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Strategic U.S. Ally in a Tough Neighborhood THE KURDISTAN REGION: STR ATEGIC U.S. ALLY IN A TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times Advocacy Department And Kurdistan24 THE KURDISTAN REGION: Strategic U.S. Ally in a Tough Neighborhood Kurdistan24 (K24), launched in 2015, provides up-to-date, impartial and quality information to an audience of over 30 million Kurdish speakers in the region. It delivers news and opinion across a range of media — television, radio and the web, including television broadcasts in the two major Kurdish dialects, Sorani and Kurmanji. K24 also provides web content in Kurdish, English, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. The news company is headquartered in Erbil, Kurdistan and has offices in the major cities of the Kurdistan Region; three Turkish cities: Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir; Qamishli, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; Tehran, Iran; Moscow, Brussels, and Washington, D.C. You can find K24 on the web at: http://www.kurdistan24.net/ Table of Contents Why America should support independent Kurdistan . 4 Understanding the Kurdistan Region Noreldin Waisy as a strategic U .S . ally . 22 Laurie Mylroie Give Iraqi Kurds a nation they can call their own . 6 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher The Peshmerga: Fearsome, fearless fighters . 23 Michael Pregent Kurdish independence will stabilize the region . 6 Rep. Trent Franks Key factors beckon support for Iraqi Kurds . 24 Lt. Gen. Jay Garner U .S . and the Kurdish Region: A ‘remarkable partnership’ . 7 Rep. Joe Wilson The Kurds: Potential strategic partners the U .S . deserves . 25 Dr. Dlawer Ala’Aldeen Ghastly 1988 attack on Kurdistan must not be forgotten . 7 Rep. Marsha Blackburn Kurdistan referendum is legitimate . 26 Dr. Walid Phares Self-determination will lead to prosperity, stability . 8 Masrour Barzani The threatened future of Christianity in Iraq . 28 Archbishop Bashar Warda, C.Ss.R. TMENT ar Embrace the Kurdish independence referendum . 10 EP Ambassador Nancy Soderberg Kurdistan: A proven sanctuary and ‘safe haven’ for refugees . 29 d y Robert A. Destro and Carole A. O’Leary C a Kurdistan referendum stands on ‘solid legal footing’ . 12 David Tafuri VOC ‘We must seek the most promising scenario’ . 30 ad Medlum Merogi s Can the Kurds win public — and American — support? . 14 Dr. Douglas Layton What is next for refugees in Kurdistan? . 31 Awat Mustafa and Mariette Hägglund Kurds: No longer the forgotten people . 16 INGTON TIME INGTON Col. Norvell B. DeAtkine Independence will open doors to investment in Kurdistan . 32 ASH Don’t blame the Kurds for Iraq’s unraveling . 17 Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman E W David L. Phillips h T y Kurdistan Region: Untapped economic potential . 33 B ‘The Kurdish moment has come’ . 18 Dr. Sasha Toperich d E Stephen Mansfield ar Confronting the current Middle East alignment . 34 EP r 5 reasons for U .S . to support an independent Kurdistan . 20 Admiral James A. Lyons T P Brig. Gen. Ernie Audino r Negotiating an amicable split: It’s time for Kurdistan EPO r The Kurds: An excellent example of ‘what can be’ . 21 and Iraq to go their separate ways . 35 al Gen. Anthony Zinni Falah Mustafa Bakir PECI s a THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON | Cheryl Wetzstein Larry T. Beasley David Dadisman Andrea Hutchins SPECIAL SECTIONS MANAGER PRESIDENT AND CEO GENERAL MANAGER SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER Advertising Department: Thomas P. McDevitt Adam VerCammen Patrick Crofoot 202-636-3062 CHAIRMAN DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING & SALES SUPERVISOR, GRAPHICS Special Sections are multipage tabloid products that run in The Washington Times daily newspaper and are posted online and in PDF form onits website. Sponsors and advertisers collaborate with The Times’ advertising and marketing departments to highlight a variety of issues and events, such as The Power of Prayer, North Korea’s Thursday • July 27 • 2017 27 • July Thursday Nuclear Threat, Gun Rights Policy Conference and Rolling Thunder Memorial Day Tribute to Veterans. Unless otherwise identified, Special Sections are prepared separately 2 ADVOCACY/SPECIAL SECTIONS and without involvement from the Times’ newsroom and editorial staff. a sPECIal rEPOrT PrEParEd By ThE WASHINGTON TIMEs adTHEVOC WASHINGTONaCy dEParTMENT TIMES | Thursday • July 27 • 2017 3 PHOTO CREDIT: KURDISTAN IRAQ TOURS LLC/TOUR GUIDE Why America should support independent Kurdistan (KRG) will hold a referendum on inde- fallen apart amid violent conflict, which Region remain extremely grateful to pendence on Sept. 25. We expect that an was exported to the rest of the world in America for this. TMENT ar overwhelming majority of the people the form of terrorism. The Kurdistan Region is the only EP will vote in favor of independence. However, the Kurdistan Region has area in the Muslim Middle East where d y We believe that this manifestation remained peaceful. both the government and the people are C a of the will of the Kurdish people for In fact, we have become a haven for friendly to America and its values. A an independent Kurdistan will work in others. Nearly 2 million people fleeing country like Saudi Arabia may be a U.S. VOC ad America’s favor and help promote stabil- the Islamic State have found refuge in ally on an official level, but Riyadh keeps s ity in the region. the Kurdistan Region. Despite the large its distance because elements of the We also believe that it will be difficult number — 40 percent of the indigenous population are hostile. That dualism does for Western countries to ignore that vote Kurdish population — and our limited not exist in Kurdistan: The people sup- — or at least to do so in good conscience. resources, we have taken them in. port the government in its pro-American INGTON TIME INGTON After all, if the peoples of Quebec, We are a hospitable and tolerant policy. Scotland and Catalonia are entitled to a people, and most of us have been refu- Thus, an independent Kurdistan could ASH referendum on independence, by what gees ourselves. well prove America’s closest and truest E W legitimate logic can the Kurds be denied Second, the Kurdistan Region has Muslim ally — which would certainly h T y the same right? shown that we are not a threat to anyone go far in explaining Iran’s hostility to our B By Noreldin Waisy In the Kurdistan Region, the people in the region. By and large, our borders referendum. d E do not feel part of a political entity called are quiet. Ironically, the country that has These issues are of vital concern to ar urdistan24, in conjunction Iraq. We have not forgotten Saddam taken the strongest stand against our the Kurdish people. But we recognize EP r with The Washington Hussein’s brutal repression in which independence referendum is Iran, even that the perspective of the U.S., as a T P Times, is sponsoring he sought to obliterate our identity as a as others, including Americans, would global superpower, is different. The U.S. r a conference on Capi- separate and distinct people. Every year claim that Iran will gain from our inde- national security agenda is very crowded, EPO tol Hill, entitled, “The on Anfal Memorial Day, we recall the pendence. Tehran clearly has a different and Kurds are a relatively small part of it. r al Kurdistan Region: Stra- Baathist regime’s genocidal campaign view. It is unlikely that U.S. policymak- tegic U.S. Ally in a Tough against us. Third, we have demonstrated an en- ers have rigorously considered all the PECI s Neighborhood.” For the past 25 years — since the 1991 during commitment to partnership with implications of our referendum and of a THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON We are holding this event at a time Gulf War — the Kurdistan Region has America. The people of the Kurdistan Kurdistan independence. That is why we | K of major change in the Middle East. been an independent, self-governing Region are extremely friendly to the are holding this conference: to present A century ago, Kurdistan was divided political entity. A whole generation U.S., and with good reason. Between 1991 crucial information and vital perspec- among four countries against the will of has grown up for which the national and 2003, a “no-fly zone,” enforced by tives to an important U.S. audience the Kurdish people — despite Ameri- language of Iraq, that is Arabic, is the U.S., protected us against Saddam’s whose decisions and opinions matter can promises of self-determination, as incomprehensible. depredations. so much to a people, much smaller in embodied in Woodrow Wilson’s famous In that quarter of a century, the Kurd- Rather than fight America and us, numbers, but whose yearnings, including “Fourteen Points.” istan Region has demonstrated several Saddam chose to ignore the Kurdistan our thirst for freedom, are surprisingly We think that it is time, indeed long crucial points. Region. American protection was a cru- like Americans. past time, for the international com- First, it has shown that it is perfectly cial factor in allowing us our first dozen Thursday • July 27 • 2017 27 • July Thursday munity to recognize the right that was capable of self-government. In that same years of self-rule, which have laid the Noreldin Waisy is the General Man- denied the Kurds 100 years ago. period, four Middle Eastern states — institutional foundations for our indepen- ager of Kurdistan24 News Network. He 4 The Kurdistan Regional Government Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya — have all dent state. The people of the Kurdistan can be followed on Twitter @nwaisy a sPECIal rEPOrT PrEParEd By ThE WASHINGTON TIMEs adTHEVOC WASHINGTONaCy dEParTMENT TIMES | Thursday • July 27 • 2017 5 Give Iraqi Kurds a nation they can call their own what every other people in the world I said then, and I will repeat it now, faiths, we can make this a better world.
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