Kirkuk Powder Keg

Just when things seemed to be simmering down in Iraq, they simmer back up again. Brian Katulis argues that the bombing today in Kirkuk may be the start of a dangerous period in that heavily contested, crucial oil-proximate city–and he’s right. I’d add that the Turks have an ethnic stake in the fate of the Turkomen minority in Kirkuk and if the Kurds launch anti-Turkomen pogroms, this has the potential of blowing up in a significant way…