This story goes along with Joel C. Rosenberg’s blog on June 17. Quite prophetic regarding the Kurdes (Medes). They are different from the other Muslims.
“....undermining hard-fought U.S. efforts to bring about a stable, multiethnic Iraq.”
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The US efforts were hard-fought, alright, but a stable, multiethnic (fill in name of any Muslim country) is an oxymoron.
Also remember that, in biblical times, the Persians and Medes were allies.