Bordering on War

摘要

In a region fierce withrnenemies, it's especially alarming when your friends start to fight. So the recent rumblings between Kurds and Turks have reminded U.S. officials that they can take nothing in Iraq for granted, especially the country's greatest success story. Seventy percent of U.S. military air cargo reaches Iraq through Turkish airspace, and over the border flow the grandfather clocks and designer clothes that make Iraqi Kurdistan feel so much more prosperous than the rest of Iraq. But from the oppositerndirection come the attacks by Kurdish guerrillas on Turkish soldiers. It's an escalating decades-long fight for Kurd ish rights that has already claimed close to 40,000 lives, including 42 Turkish soldiers in just the past few weeks.