The Kurdish struggle in Iraq shows no signs of slowing. In the last 48 hours, both the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad have accused the other of not negotiating in good faith. The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said Nov. 1 that the negotiations with the KRG had failed and were back to square one, and that Kurdish fighters were using negotiations to strengthen their defenses. The KRG responded, saying it had made a good faith proposal for a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment, with U.S.-led coalition involvement, to control the strategically important border town of Fishkhabor and the nearby Ibrahim Khalil border crossing. The two sides have reached a impasse over a thorny issue: sovereignty....
