how do I mod +1 sarcastic?

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

I know you meant this as joke, but actually Russia and Serbia really might recognise independent Kurdistan, since Turkey recognised independent Kosovo. But US would probably be apoplectic, since its foreign policy since 2003 has been to keep Iraq together at all costs, no doubt to placate Saudi Arabia. Hence its allies in Europe would probably be hesitant at best to recognise Kurdistan.

Nice thought, but I am more cynical than you.

Wouldn't it be a good idea for the US and Iraq to arrange for a separation of an independent nation from Iraq?

It would be a bad idea for Iraq to lose a substantial part of its oil wealth to a new nation that isn't likely to share much of the profits.  It isn't a good idea for the US to suddenly be responsible for a brand new country that will be in a low-grade war with Turkey for years to come, and will likely be victim to Iranian meddling for the same amount of time.  

In exchange for recognition from Turkey, Iraq, and the World the Kurds would agree to stop starting trouble on the Turkish side of the border and agree to forever waive any and all claims to land currently held by Turkey.

Some Kurds also claim land in Iran, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.  Some Palestinians claim the rights to all of the British Mandate of Palestine.  Some Jews claim the rights to a much larger version of Israel than currently exists.   Some Irish claim the rights to the entire island of Ireland.  Some Serbs claim the rights to the entirety of ancient Serb lands.      Independence and nationalist movements rarely have a group willing to settle for just so much.

Iraq would lose some land but would have one less foreign affairs problem to deal with

No, they would just have one different foreign affairs problem to deal with.

I wouldn't want you to think that I am anti-Kurd.  Quite the contrary.  However, I think that all the pro-independence Kurds in America need to seriously consider what will happen in the weeks and decades following Kurdish independence--it will make this current Kosovo flareup look like a free and fair election.  

People go back and forth on the wisdom of partitioning states based on ethnic lines. Some people think that multi-ethnic states should be maintained, because (theoretically) it's better to have the ethnic groups settle their differences within a democratic state than it is to have them in two separate countries which might then go to war. Partition also always raises the nasty business of ethnic cleansing - there will always be people of the wrong color/creed/language on the wrong side of the border. We're seeing that right now - what do you do with the 10% of Kosovo's population that's Serbian? Sometimes it seems better to just keep the state together and hope for the best. That said, I think that scholarly opinion is turning towards partition as being the best option. Here's a good paper by Chaim Kaufman (he's written about this a lot, but this was the first thing I turned up that I could link to for free) which sort of gives an overview of where we're at and what the different options are. Kaufman obviously strongly favors partition, but, frankly, his recent writings and scholarship have been good enough that I think he's swayed a lot of people who used to be on the fence.