"As independence emerges
By Tulin Daloglu
September 13, 2005
Two days after the fourth anniversary of September 11, President Bush welcomes Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to the White House. To date, nearly as many Americans have died in Iraq as did during that awful terrorist attack. The war already has had unprecedented outcomes, and it has the potential to break apart the most crucial 'Arab' state in the region -- carving out an independent Kurdistan.
Whether the war on terror included a plan to change the borders in the region is an incredibly important question. Senior U.S. officials have talked to me in several conversations about Northern Iraq as if it were already an independent Kurdistan, where the name -- historically -- requires Turkey, Iran and Syria to surrender land. "
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