Kurdistan: A Middle East haven?
By Jamie M. Fly 
Friday, June 4, 2010 – 7:00 PM
As late as the ’90s, Americans visiting Berlin could still meet Germans so thankful for the U.S. role in saving West Berlin from Soviet strangulation in the years immediately following World War II that they would greet American visitors as if they were the very GIs they remembered as children giving them chocolates in 1948. With the deterioration in U.S.-German relations over the last decade, such experiences occur less frequently today. Instead, Americans in search of such gratitude purely because of their nationality might want to pay a visit to the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
On a recent week long trip to the area, sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), it quickly became apparent that the Kurds have achieved something their fellow Iraqis should aspire to — a safe, secure region where the economy is booming and Iraqis revel in the freedom and opportunity afforded by the post-Saddam era.
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Jamie M. Fly is Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative
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