Dr. Anderson, a researcher on Kurdish issues n Iraq shed light on the American policy in a detailed article.

He stressed, in this article, that the United States' policy toward Kurds in Iraq has been stable, especially after the invasion of the country and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, and that is the lack of support from the Kurds’ independence and their claims about Kirkuk. However, he added that the U.S. has always refused to explicitly express the approach to Iraqi Kurdish leaders.

The researcher believes that, taking a look at the historical ties between Kurds and the U.S. government, we will come to the conclusion that whenever the U.S. needs Kurdish help, it has supported the Kurds until the need has gone. When support for the Kurds was not at the service of America’s interests, Washington stopped supporting them, and they were the Kurds who lost this engagement.

Dr. Anderson pointed to a lack of balance in power between the Kurds and the U.S., saying that the Kurds could not find an alternative to the United States. For this reason, this type of interaction between the Kurds and the U.S. is a futile relationship.

The US Wright University professor described what some described as “the United States’ stabbed the Kurds behind", in particular the lack of support for Kurds during the 2017 referendum and the withdrawal of Kurds from Kirkuk, as an explicit and customary feature in US relations with the Kurds.

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