Who Wants The Drumstick?

While most people are still worrying about the consequences of a war in the Persian Gulf, a few are looking ahead to the division of spoils of a vanquished Iraq. Last month officials representing the U.S., Turkey and the Kurdish tribes of southern Turkey and northern Iraq met in Europe to discuss just what a postwar Iraq might look like. In their view, an independent Kurdistan could be carved out of Iraqi territory, and a good bit of the northern part of the country could be ceded to Turkey. There could also be significant “border adjustments” between Iraq and its neighbors Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, none of them in Iraq’s favor.