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The North american invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan can be an invisible region, and the Kurds the most significant ethnic group on Earth with out a homeland, comprising some 25 million modest Sunni Muslims living in the area throughout the edges of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Through a brief history dating back to biblical times, they may have endured persecution and betrayal, making it through only through obstinate compromise with greater powers. They have got always desired their own point out, and now, inadvertently, america may have helped them have a huge step toward that goal. As Quil Lawrence relates in his amazing and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow apace, their future will be basically reliant on whether America prices a budding democracy in the region, or makes a decision to just as before sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency. In any event, the Kurdish north may well prove to be the defining battleground in Iraq, as the country struggles to hold itself together. At this extraordinary moment in time in the saga of Kurdistan, prepared by his deep knowledge of the people and region, Lawrence's intimate and unflinching portrait of the Kurds and their heretofore quixotic pursuit offers a essential and original lens by which to contemplate the future of Iraq and the encompassing Middle East.
