[BOBTHENAILER]

"If the United States acts alone in northern Iraq, then the Kurds will be the main military ally of Washington."

Well, duh. You make your bed with the islamic interests, you can sleep with your islamic interests. You can watch your stock market take a one day hit of 14%. You can kiss goodbye the good graces of world opinion.

As Clint Eastwood would have said to the Turkish Parliament, prior to the vote of rejection:

"Go ahead PUNK, make my day."

[meenie]

With a little diplomatic effort, the United States should be able to make both the Kurds and Turks enemies.