“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.” MoralityIraqAutonomyRoyaltyIraq WarKurdistanBahrainStatehoodKurdish PeopleAl Khalifa Family Book:A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq