On the border of disaster

Could things actually get a lot worse in Iraq? They could,

if a major regional power were sucked into the vortex of Iraq’s deepening chaos. Turkey almost was. And it still could be, if cooler heads in Ankara, Kurdistan and Washington can’t manage to quell dangerous tensions between Turkey’s military and separatist Kurdish guerrillas, who have been attacking Turkey from safe havens across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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