They were expendable
Joost Hiltermann: Iraq and the Kurds, 17 November 2016
Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds and the Cold War
by Bryan Gibson.
Palgrave, 256 pp., £65, May 2015,978 1 349 69552 2 Show More
by Bryan Gibson.
Palgrave, 256 pp., £65, May 2015,
“... to Henry Kissinger, then both US secretary of state and national security adviser, as quoted by Bryan Gibson from declassified US government documents: Our hearts bleed to see that an immediate byproduct of [Iran and Iraq’s] agreement is the destruction of our defenceless people in an unprecedented manner as Iran closed its border and stopped help ... ”