Can Kurds and Arabs be reunited?

摘要

Although basking this week in a visit from Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, who promised that they would not be abandoned, Iraqi Kurds are beginning to question the future. America's victory could even achieve what 35 years of Saddam Hussein's rule failed to do: reintegrate the north back into Iraq. Ever since their northern safe haven was set up in 1991, the Kurds have run their own affairs. They flew their flag over the territory they call Kurdistan, circulated their own money, and cleansed themselves of Arab influence. Now the Kurds, who alone greeted the American invasion with flowers, are being ordered to unify.