Dithering

The Times opinionators kind of pussyfoot around the Kurdish 'problem' as tensions escalate not only on the Turkish-Iraq border but also, as reported in their own newspaper, the Iraq-Iran border in the Kurdish Autonomous Region.

The Kurds already consider themselves freelancers in the 'great game', answerable only to their apparent singular objective which is probably true independence from the nascent Iraq federation.

This administration has shown a wanton lack of concern with regards to Kurdish posturing and, if anything, has turned a blind eye to the repeated attacks of the PKK on it's own NATO ally.

We can now see how this administration is being forced, by Cheney, to focus entirely on Iran at the expense of all other, now broiling, problems within the greater middle-east. It is this singular and determined disregard for conventional thinking and the repercussions of their reflexive actions that has become the hallmark for this administrations blundering foreign policy initiatives. Ignore reality, invent enemies, ignite hostilities and initiate ineptitude.