A Word From Mr. Kurd

My people are ‘great fighters,’ but we are far more than that.

Before I could begin my question to President Trump at Wednesday’s press conference, he asked me where I was from. I told him I was a Kurd from Iraq; he said: “I like this question so far.”

Naturally, I went on to ask about the Kurds, who have provided boots on the ground in the fight against Islamic State. “We have defeated ISIS, essentially,” Mr. Trump told me, “And we did it with a lot of help from the Kurds. And they are great fighters.”

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