Two important questions

So now that the military part of Iraq is over, what do we do with the Kurds? They've enjoyed a fairly autonomous de facto state for the past dozen years, I doubt they'd give in to being part of a larger Iraqi state. So, without knowing too many details, we could create a Kurdistan who's borders are determined by the existing borders of Iraq and the southern boundary of the "No Fly Zone". Okay, there's your Kurdistan. Let's pretend that all the internal-Iraqi politics of this are solved at this point: the Kurds are happy, the rest of the Iraq is happy.

Fine, now how do we make this palatable to Turkey and Iran? The proposed boundaries of Kurdistan as drawn by Kurdist nationalists take up parts of Turkey and Iran. Now that the Kurds have a state with an infrastructure, what's to stop them from starting a land war with Turkey and Iran? And more to the point, what's to prevent them from winning? There would have to be some assurances that the Kurds don't do this, still, that wouldn't stop the Kurdish rebels already in Iran and Turkey from taking heart in this and redoubling their efforts. And in any case, the concept of an internationally recognized Kurdistan at their borders is not an agreeable concept to the Turkish and Iranians governments.

But of course, all this is moot if we just invade Iran. Fucking chickenhawks.