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To: Sam who wrote (255088)	7/6/2014 12:40:16 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 543041

<<Yes, it is a "fascinating" read, but it is self serving and incomplete, a neo-con dream world in which the surge could have saved everything if only Obama and Biden had listened to the genius neo-cons.>> I agree with that. But the administration is making a mistake continuing to hurt the Kurds trying to force Iraq to stay together. This mistake they are making reminds me of the surge in Afghanistan which was nuts. We need to stop doing dumb stuff and start doing smart stuff. Fareed Zakaria has it right when he sees our role as managing the reorganization of the ME around tribal boundaries that make more sense. He calls it "sorting out"-helping them to sort it out. But instead Obama is strangling the Kurds which weakens their ability to fight Isis and is part of a fools errand trying to hold Iraq together. That is not going to fxxking happen!! We cannot hold Iraq together. And the Kurds are the most democratic and most abused over the years, of all of them. So why not help the Kurds, protect them and then use them as a democratic prototype for the region people in the ME can see?