Abstract
Having existed through millennia of foreign dominance and occupation, hard by the Zargos mountains, Kurds have a saying older than our country. “The Kurd has no friend but the mountain.” Now is the time for Washington to change its policy of a unified Iraq and support Kurdish independence. Now is the time to show the Kurds they have a friend who will stand with them. Military operations by the US in northern Iraq have begun that could pave the way for this long-delayed eventuality.