I'm constantly forgetting about
Time's Middle East blog, but I really shouldn't. Here's
Scott McLeod on the deteriorating situation in Kurdistan: "Anyone who bothered to notice understood that the Bush administration's plan to re-make Iraq was destined, for better or worse, to put the explosive question of Kurdish political independence or autonomy high on the region's agenda." Yep. MacLeod has more, including a missive from Jon Randal, author of a book on the Kurds.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/04/kurdistan/42099/