Ten years ago, peter W Galbraith wrote
The End of Iraq
One of his most compelling themes was that the Kurds would be the only beneficiaries of the breakup of Iraq as we knew it then.
He got that partially right. After reading his book, one wonders if, in the law of unintended outcomes, that war should have been named
Operation Kurdish Freedom. No wonder the Turks declined to let the Fourth Armored Division start in Turkey and head south. They saw the writing on the wall.
Given that certain clutures/ethnicities have been given preferred status by the so-called international community -- Bosniaks, Albanians, "Macedonians" and a few others -- why not the Kurds? Why not the Pashtun? Why not redraw those lines on the map?