Anti-Climacus

AND: in the spirit of my previous post, an idea: orchestrate a founding of an official Kurdish state. They have a de facto regime in place already... why not go ahead and formalize it? You'd have to negotiate territorial sovereignty with Turkey, of course (but the idea of removing the threat of Saddam would probably placate them). There'd be no problem getting countries to declare their government legitimate (US, Britain and Australia, in a heartbeat; but I can also see strong European support--Spain, Italy, and most of Eastern Europe). That would put the focus back where it should be...