Solutions, for the zealots of the Bush administration, are not achieved by negotiation: they are to be imposed. So the Kurds will continue to suffer, like everyone else in Iraq. * * * Ten years ago, when I lived in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, my evening walk took me past the office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), which has since been relocated far from the residential section of town. The move was made so that the office could be more easily guarded from would-be petitioners such as Kurdish refugees, some of whom at that time had erected a...