Kurdish Life articles from September 2005

Kurdish Life archives from September 2005

Carrying their teeth in their pockets.(KURDS)(Consul J. C. Taylor)
September 22, 2005... Consul J. C. Taylor to the Earl of Clarendon from Erzeroum, March 19th, 1869 "Malazgerd, Iklat, and Boulanik are rich undulating plains, but of comparable little value now, as they are infested with the common curse of the country, the...

An infernal triangle.(BAGHDAD)
September 22, 2005... Six days into fall, in an essay for the Daily Star, David Ignatius mused: "President Bush and other administration officials continue to speak about Iraqi democracy in glowing terms, but you don't hear similar language from the military. 'I...

The madding crowd.(WASHINGTON)(household income, health care)
September 22, 2005... Last August the U.S. Census Bureau reported that "median pretax household income, at $44,389 last year, was at its lowest point since 1997, after accounting for inflation. The portion of Americans without health insurance remained roughly...

The little foxes.(ISRAEL)
September 22, 2005... Motivation and methodology must have been on Mustapha Malik's mind when he penned this commentary: "Wael Abdul Latif, a Shia member of the Iraq constitutional committee, fears that he may have participated in the disintegration of his country....

When death has dominion.(WAR)
September 22, 2005... "The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the great strategic disaster in U.S. history." Lt. Gen. William Odom, Hudson Institute The invasion of Iraq was not just a strategic disaster; it was and is a human catastrophe. The...

Kurdish Life past.
September 22, 2005... By far the largest area of high-valley and mountaintop pastoralism in the Middle East is that of the Zagros chain in Iran, Turkey and Iraq, and especially in Iran. Four different groups of hardy mountaineers are concerned: the Kurds, the Lurs,...