Why American troops belong in Kurdistan

USA Today, Opinion

By Lionel Beehner

November 21, 2007

ZAKHO, Iraq — To shuttle between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan as an American is to feel both liked and loathed: Liked because you are crossing a border separating the two most pro-American people in the Muslim world, and loathed because the United States hasn't done enough to defuse the tension between the two sides. Should war erupt, Washington could come to regret its hands-off approach. Full Text