Sandro Contenta of the Toronto Star on War within a war a real possibility:
Kurds have openly demanded political control of Kirkuk — made up of Kurds, Arabs and Turkomans — a claim that also doesn't sit well with Turkey and is likely to keep the city a source of instability in Iraq after the war.
Turkey fears that an autonomous Kurdish entity in northern Iraq with Kirkuk as its economic engine will evolve into an independent state, thereby encouraging separatist sentiment among its own oppressed Kurdish minority.
We can't have that. That might be real liberation of an oppressed people, that we've ignored for the sake of political ties. It would further deteriorate our relationship with Turkey, a human rights oppressor and member of the "Coalition of the Willing." Kinda like our previous 27 year relationship with Saddam Hussein.
Oops, I forgot. We're not supposed to be talking about that.
Link courtesy of Rational Review News Digest.