Erdogan and his buffoons have cheapened and discredited their country, to be sure, and I understand why the President has written him of the list of folks to contact about the current conflict.
What I can't understand is turning a blind eye to the PKK and Iranian Islamists, and giving them a piece of the action in New Iraq. A strong Turkish presence in Northern Iraq would, on the other hand, definitely burn out the hornets' nest of the PKK, and make the reconstruction of the country just that much easier.
What I see here is not a plan designed to succeed in creating a new country ultimately governed by law. I see a plan which has, as its primary objective, thumbing its nose at Turkey. That strikes me as counter-productive. I see nothing but future problems, unless the Turkish Army quits twiddling its thumbs and decides to get rid of Erdogan and the AKP.
I see no value at all in setting up a bigger and better PKK, with a rejuvenated Islamic Iran, to boot.
No one is going to tolerate the creation of a Kurdistan. We'll do to them what we're doing to Turkey now but with even less effort. We won't even have to do more than lift the phone and make a few phone calls, one to Turkey, one to Iran, one to the new central government of Iraq.
THERE WILL BE NO KURDISTAN!
As far as Iran, we must engage with them in order to utilize the British intel and diplomatic assets and to exploit the restless element among Iranian young people to throw off the dead hand of the mullahs. The result will be a return to something like a parliamentary demoncracy. Perhaps a little better situation than what Turkey currently has. At any rate, it couldn't be worse. And we have to do something about their nuke program no matter what. That cannot be tolerated in the oil patch except for Israel's arsenal.