It seems that the Kurds got it right. My question would be Turkey. It seems that Turkey is okay for now with a stable Kurdistan on their border keeping the ISIS maniacs out. But what happens when the Kurds in Turkey want to leave and join Kurdistan?
I've been trying to learn the history I never learned well enough in college. Could it be that the way out of this mess is a very thorough realignment of the borders that were so badly messed up after WW1?
Realigning borders is always messy. Further study of the area shows that the place has been conquered and reconquered time and again in recorded history. It is such a mess that borders cannot and will not solve the myriad of problems there.
Once solution is to let them fight it out and the last man standing gets the dubious prize. And before he sits down to dinner, someone else will be challenging him for the prize.
A realignment at the expense of Turkiye will never fly. Turkey really is the big dog in the neighborhood and will not be broken up by its neighbors or by the Obamic USA.