eesh Wrote:
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> I think Turkey will get involved soon. They really
> don't like the Kurds, and the Kurdish struggle for
> independence has always spilled over into Turkish
> territory.
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> I really don't think Iraq will succumb to
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> nization">Balkanization, too many nations have
> an interest in keeping Iraq functional.
I think that the latter is becoming more likely. A major obstacle to anything along those lines was that Turkey has been staunchly against any kind of Kurdish state. But that's changed more recently. I'd guess that they view the Iraqi Kurds as much less of a threat than the psycho-Sunnis. That would give them a significant buffer from all of that mess and would take a lot of the wind out of the sails of their own separatist movement if there's some kind of Kurdish 'homeland' established.