Yes unfortunately this political 'fiction' is costing lives and mega $$$ which could have been used for something better. Not to mention unstability to where it really is needed.
Lots of puzzling things going on there.... Iraq govt just declared PKK as a terrorist organization (x number of years later than USA and EU, Can etc)... but still their people are freely driving around villages...
Another interesting thing is, a Times journalist was able go to the terrorist training camps and interview all these women and men training to be bad guys and yet they cannot be located for extermination. How sad is that?