[Kenny Bunk]

Dog, Iraq is a composite state, something like the former Yugoslavia. What is wrong with giving the Kurds a Confederated Semi-Autonomous Region? Hell, I'd even take a slice from Iran for it, if I thought we could get away with it. If then they misbehaved, who but Jane Fonda would even care if the Turks had to slap'em around a little bit to keep them in it?

Granted, the Kurds are definitely not a Western-Civilization-Compatible people. However, neither were the Chiricahua Apaches, and even they got a reservation to call home. Ditto treatment for the Albanians. Better bloody, destructive tribespeople be placed in circumstances where the UN can watch(and feed)them, for at least as long as it takes them to figure out how to illegally immigrate to LA.

We (and our wonderful allies, the kind and gentle Turks,) would also have a much better chance of confining their primitive hostilities by keeping them in border-defined homelands. The alternative is having these lawless Clymers roam loose through Europe and the Middle East, wreaking havoc wherever they go.

[Dog Gone]

I think we're going to have enough trouble installing a government in Iraq without creating another new nation at the same time. I don't think we're interested in putting a hostile neighbor, one with territorial designs, on the border of a NATO ally.

Now, Turkey may have screwed the pooch with their vote last Saturday. We may, in fact, agree to Kurdish provinces in federated Iraq that have more autonomy than Turkey would like. That will be determined later.