Why We Owe the Kurds

Steve Russell
5 min readOct 13, 2019
Imaginary Kurdistan Graphic by the Kurdish Project

Daesh aka ISIL aka ISIS is the enemy of the United States,

of Canada, and of every Indian nation that occupies the same real estate. They believe they have been deputized by God to convert us or kill us and so our choices are convert or die. Most of us approach a disagreement threatening war as a different choice: Do we fight or do we talk?

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)