Analysis
Caught Between Erbil and Baghdad: Washington's Long Struggle to Define Its Kurdish Policy
For decades, American policymakers have walked a precarious tightrope between supporting Kurdish aspirations in northern Iraq and preserving the territorial integrity of the Iraqi state. This contradictory posture has produced neither a stable Kurdistan nor a unified Iraq, leaving both partners frustrated and US credibility fraying at the edges. Understanding why Washington keeps stumbling over the Kurdish question requires a hard look at the structural tensions embedded in American Middle East
