17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 10:50 PM 01/07/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
As when the Cossacks who fled the U.S.S.R. after the war and pledged to help the West fight Communism were returned by the British to Stalin, where they were executed. (I was reminded of this by the latest Bond movie, where Bond avers, "Not exactly Britain's finest moment.")
The Kurds in Iraw during the Persina Gulf war is an analagous situation. The Kurds supported and assisted the U.S. government during the war. Really pro-U.S.. At some point near the end of the war, though, the U.S. just started ignoring them, and Hussein started bombing them and killing huge numbers of them.