ALWAYS MORE SHOES TO DROP. Most of what's gone wrong in Iraq was fairly widely predicted by invasion-skeptics before the event. Still, the doubters have hardly been clairvoyant. One of the most widespread predictions -- that Kurdish separatists would get embroiled in fighting with Turkey -- has really been the dog that didn't bark for years now. But this sounds like a bark to me: "Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases."
Meanwhile, lurking at the end of this rundown of sectarian and insurgent violence we see that, once again, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is trying to hint that we should leave Iraq, saying his government's forces "would be able to fill the vacuum if multinational forces withdrew."
--Matthew Yglesias
