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Again, your thinking is warped by too much 'geopolitical' thinking... this is the kind of thinking that made Kissinger screw the kurds 30 years ago. the kurds have turned to those who will help them because THE COUNTRIES THAT RULE OF THEM HAVE COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST THEM.

Here we are discussing how USA may ally with turkey or not, and you are blaming Kurds - who have so *little* power - for being promiscuous in their friends.

All the Kurds really want is FREEDOM. Speak their own language, teach their kids and live their lives.
They can do it as a part of federated Iraq.
I think the USA can handle that as part of the liberation of Iraq. Easily. And the kurds wont ask for $30 billion.

No, I'm not "blaming" the Kurds, I'm saying do not trust them. Having done my time in 91-93 in that region, I repeat, trust no one. Look out for the people, find the few responsible leaders, but do not trust the current leadership by and far. Genocide is a term used so loosely IMHO that if we were serious about it being a mitigating factor in our policies, China would be isolated forever. Don't preach the "Genocide" card against my opinion as the US has proven (along with our corporations relocation program) that the term only applies to our enemies and not our economic partners. From a puritanical geopolitical standpoint (since you want me to take that view) the death of another 100,000 Kurds is irrelevant to the big picture. We want our type of government, friendly to us, and screw the rest of the world, in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. We want the Ruskies and ChiComs blocked from controlloing big oil and the Eurosocialists from benefitting from the profits. The reality? People are assets. And if you think otherwise, your as naive as the do-gooders in the Peace Corps.