Iraq Update -- Why the Delay?

Most of the reports out of Iraq place the blame for the failure to draft a constitution squarely on the Sunni representatives. Christopher Albritton, over at Back to Iraq, has a different take. He writes:

[N]o one has walked away yet. The Sunnis on the committee obviously feel that forcing the collapse of the government is not in their interests right now. However, I’m hearing the Kurds are a little more extreme and ready to walk if they don’t get everything they want: Kirkuk, oil revenues, the right to secede, autonomy. Why am I not surprised? I always suspected the Kurds would be the spanner in the works in the end. More and more, I hear Iraqi Arabs muttering that the Kurds should just frickin’ leave if they don’t want to be part of Iraq so much.

Well, actually, a lot of the Kurds would sorta like that. Of course, it might upset Turkey, Iraq, and other states in the region, and with good reason.

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Sensing a great historical opportunity Kurds throughout the region are beginning to assert themselves. Robert Mayer at Publius has a good collection of posts on recent Kurdish uprisings in Syria [here]. And here on uprisings in Iran. And here on separatism in Turkey.