You Say Tomayto, I say Tomahto

http://mobile.nytimes.com/art/112839/19

NYT has a great piece today on the Kurds stirring up trouble in Iran. I do not know if this is a flaw or a function of US middle east policy, but after Israeli the Kurds are the next most hated people in the region by virtue of trying to turn their minority status in four countries (Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria) into a single Kurdish majority country. They are also the archetypical transnational insurgent/terrorist organization, but since the enemy of my enemy is occassionally my friend get a free pass except in Turkey.

Read the article and it will be clear why the Iranians might be running mil ops in Iraq. My only quibble is that the US response that "The consensus is that U.S. forces are not working with or advising the P.J.A.K.," is the lamest non-denial I have ever heard and almost certainly means there are Special Ops teams working with them (probably intel and/or training).