His voice suddenly rose a few degrees: "My men bled, brothers died to seize Kirkuk from the enemy with brute force! And with one lazy word 'withdraw,' you want me to spit out the meat in my mouth? Why should I? Just because you're Americans? Just because Washington makes a few phone calls and sends some files?"
"This isn't about who is whom!"
Simon tried to persuade the other party with logic and rules, though he himself felt the argument was somewhat feeble, "The Kirkuk Oil Field Area, its ownership itself is an extremely complex historical and political issue, it wasn't yours originally..."
"Not in the past."
