The Plight of the Kurds
Your editorial “How Could the Kurds Have Misunderstood?” (April 9) can be answered quite honestly by saying “they didn’t.” Only the politically or intellectually naive person would believe that any group of people, no matter how unsophisticated, would go to war expecting to lose and then expect someone to come in and assist them in winning.
No, after the 100-hour ground war had ceased, the Kurds went on the attack solely because they believed that Hussein’s troops were so weak that they could defeat his army. That expectation proved to be wrong and the Kurds’ leaders and certain members of the media then tried to blame the subsequent slaughter on Bush’s statement that Saddam was comparable to Hitler and Bush hoped that he would be overthrown.
Can it logically be argued that the Kurds believed the U.S. and its allies had Saddam on the ropes and didn’t knock him out and yet would actually start all over again and send troops to assist the Kurds in doing what we could have so easily done in the war? Such an argument does not have a great deal of credibility.
FRANK WAGNER
Playa del Rey
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