Democratic, pro-Western Iraqi Kurds are forward thinking, sensitive to women's rights, effective in the fight against IS | dG1fa0tTeE9yOVFzeU0
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:08 The story is that the Kurdish people are an ethnic minority in their own country,
00:16 and that genocide has been committed against them.
00:20 [MUSIC]
00:22 The Arabs I worked with didn't have a high regard for the Kurds.
00:25 They look at them as kind of the lowlifes of the Middle East.
00:29 [MUSIC]
00:32 There it's more like the wild, wild west.
00:34 What happens there affects the whole world.
00:37 This is a landlocked region and a pretty rough neighborhood.
00:41 The only people we know can hold it in place are the really violent present dictators.
00:46 Take them out of the equation, what happens?
00:48 [MUSIC]
00:58 You have 40 million Kurds who are not free.
01:01 These people have been living in hell for all these centuries.
01:04 So it's a story as old as mankind, isn't it?
01:07 The Kurds are not the type that go on their knees.
01:09 It's a story as old as Cain and Abel.
01:11 The war in Iraq has not finished yet.
01:14 Tick tock, tick tock.
01:15 [MUSIC]
01:17 The Kurds are not victims anymore.
01:19 This will be very bloody.
01:21 [MUSIC]