Independence for Kurdistan?
When I take a cab, I always sit in the front and I always talk to the driver. Every driver has a story and, here in London, usually it is a story which begins in a foreign land.
This morning, I took a cab, engaged the driver in conversation, and asked him where he came from. His answer was “Kurdistan”. Now there is no such country, so I asked him which part of Kurdistan and he told me “Iraq”.
He then lambasted me with criticism of the US role in Iraq and the case for the Kurdish part of Iraq to be granted independence. He told me that the Kurds had been promised independence at the end of the First World War – which is true – and that the best thing for Iraq would be Kurdish independence – which is not true.
In fact, some two and a half years ago, I wrote about Kurdistan [see here] as one of the first entries (actually number 11) in my long-running series called Forgotten World (now with 150 entries).
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Ah, then not a black cab.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
No – it’s almost impossible to have a conversation with a black cab driver (and they are all British anyway).