Glavin: Persecuted Kurds have few friends (including us)

Here’s something that doesn’t happen very often. On one of the deepest tectonic stresses underlying the blood-soaked ground of the Greater Middle East, an orderly referendum carried out this week in the most exemplary democratic fashion in Northern Iraq has pitted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, European radical leftists and one of the most persecuted minorities on the face of the earth against U.S. President Donald Trump, Syrian mass murderer Bashar Assad, Turkish strongm