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The Kurdish choice of Fouad Massoum and his eventual election as Iraq’s new (and second Kurdish) president needs further scrutiny. My last article on this issue resonated among Iraqi Kurdish officials. I received valuable (but non-attributable) information and a correction on the voting attitudes of Kurdish parliamentarians in the Iraqi national assembly that shed new light on how local political considerations and calculations may be instrumental in determining regional and international politics, a phenomenon exclusive to the Middle East.
In my last article, I had written the following:
