WELCOME TO KURDISTAN:

Kurdish Region in Northern Iraq Will Get to Keep Special Status (STEVEN R. WEISMAN, January 5, 2004, NY Times)

The Bush administration has decided to let the Kurdish region remain semi-autonomous as part of a newly sovereign Iraq despite warnings from Iraq's neighbors and many Iraqis not to divide the country into ethnic states, American and Iraqi officials say.

This has always been inevitable, unless the Kurds themselves choose to be part of a greater Iraq, which is and has been unlikely.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 5, 2004 12:01 AM