It's not as if the war in Iraq couldn't get much worse in a geopolitical sense, right?

Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern
Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there — a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.

Wait, wait, democracy brings stability, right? Democracies don't fight each other, right?