A Kurdish State Won’t Destabilize the Middle East

On Monday, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan voted overwhelmingly for independence, despite pressure from friend and foe alike—with the exception of Israel—to refrain from holding the referendum at all. Dominic Green, rejecting the U.S. foreign-policy and military establishment’s position that Kurdish independence would fuel the region’s chaos, argues that support for the Kurds “is not just the right thing to do, it is also the sensible thing to do.”