"What's a Kurd, anyway?" -Norman Podhoretz
This old quote comes courtesy of Jeffrey Goldbery in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine. He gives us the context of the quote in the cover story "After Iraq: What will the Middle East look like?" Basically, he's telling us now ignorant the neo-conservatives have been to the demographics in the Middle East, missing the fact that the Kurds would become a political complication in post-war Iraq.
'Just before the “Mission Accomplished” phase of the war, I spoke about Kurdistan to an audience that included Norman Podhoretz, the vicariously martial neoconservative who is now a Middle East adviser to Rudolph Giuliani. After the event, Podhoretz seemed authentically bewildered. “What’s a Kurd, anyway?” he asked me.'
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