If I told you I was skiing with a friend in the Swiss Alps last week, and my friend had been skiing in Iraq two days before that, you’d probably think I’d been smoking exotic cheroots, but you’d be wrong. Peter Galbraith is the son of Ken Galbraith, Harvard professor, writer, economist, ex-ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration, and now, at 97 years of age, semi-retired from the political wars. His son Peter is also an ex-ambassador. He was Uncle Sam’s man in Croatia during the early Nineties, now lectures at the War College, and did stints with ABC in Iraq during the start of the great blunder. Peter Galbraith’s great love, however, has been the Kurds, those ancient people without a country, and his involvement with them has been going on for more than 30 years.
Actually, Peter had been cross-country skiing in Kurdistan, and was quite funny in describing how the Turks at the Iraqi border were mystified by the large gunnysack carrying his skis, but after a few cigarette packs exchanged hands, the all-clear was cheerfully given.
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