More of Spaniard Zapatero's "fiasco":

Thousands of Kurds fought pitched battles with paramilitary police across northern Syria yesterday as rioting, in which at least 30 people have died, worsened for the fifth day in a row.

...The trouble began at a football match at which Kurdish fans waved posters of President George W Bush while being taunted by Syrian supporters with pictures of Saddam Hussein.

...Syria and Turkey watched the fall of Saddam with concern, fearing that it would unleash renewed determination among ethnic Kurds, who were brutally suppressed during the Iraqi tyrant's rule, for an autonomous region.

Opponents of Iraqi liberation spoke of the danger of "destabilization" in the region. In eleven months, the only political structures whose foundations have been shaken are oppressive, terrorist-supporting regimes like Syria and Iran. That's not only beneficial for the free world, it's exactly what architects of Iraq's liberation intended. All the while, some remain content to deny the far-reaching effect of a soundly built democratic nation in the center of the Near East. But they're continually - and increasingly - at odds with reality.