BAck-up:  The current 'nations' in the middle-east were just 'lines' on a map drawn up by the West at the end of WWI, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that had included them.  They never acknowledged the Kurds as a separate entity.  
Then GWBush for his amusement, completely destroyed Iraq.  There's nothing now to 'put together'.  Sometimes when you break something, it can't be fixed.