Obama’s message to ISIS: Stay out of #Kurdistan, but the rest of northern Iraq is all yours
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5982275/obamas-implicit-bargain-with-isis-for-iraq
Obama’s message to ISIS: Stay out of #Kurdistan, but the rest of northern Iraq is all yours
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5982275/obamas-implicit-bargain-with-isis-for-iraq
Oil and Why America Is Dropping Bombs to Defend Erbil
▻http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/oil-erbil
Obama’s defense of Erbil is effectively the defense of an undeclared Kurdish oil state whose sources of geopolitical appeal—as a long-term, non-Russian supplier of oil and gas to Europe, for example—are best not spoken of in polite or naïve company, as Al Swearengen would well understand.
Life, Swearengen once pointed out, is often made up of “one vile task after another.” So is American policy in Iraq.