You don't have a good grap on history in Iraq.
After being freed from Saddam in 1991 the Kurds butchered each other for years in a terrible civil war. But, they had to with US help learn how to work out their differences peacefully not in the old way. All of this took a decade.
My grip on Iraqi history is firmly rooted in reality and the present.
The Kurds are doing very well and seem to be building a nation where their fellow Iraquis seem to be destroying even the possibility of a nation.
The contrast is startling the Sunnis and the Shiites are grinding underfoot the opportunity to have a future a la the cantonments of the Swiss(not that Iraq is EVER going to be Switzerland)or a cohesive single nation.
While they are doing this the Kurds embrace freedom and build, build, build.
Am I wrong, or did I miss something?