And just who's fault might that be? Hmmmm?
Will we will be able to renovate our 1 billion dollar embassy before turning it over to the Bagdaddies and Rooskies?
Cut our loses, get the hell out of the region, stop interfering with Israel, drill our own oil, and put stop to Muslim immigration to the U.S. For the foreseeable future.
If this article is true, Iraq is officially gone. Might as well establish a Kurdish, Sunni and Shia state and let the civil war begin in Sunnistan.
Good. Let’s get out of there and let the Russians wade in neck deep. Let’s instead support Jordan, Egypt, Israel, etc. and let the vestiges of Sykes-Picot unravel into tribal and religious strife.
“Most Iraqis, be they civilians, military personnel, or government officials, do not trust Americans. “
Yes they did not like having their uncle’s killed by invading Americans, or the National humiliation of being slapped down in a matter of days, like chumps. But also, they have reason to believe that this administration took an active hand in the ISIS disaster that has hit the country like a nuke.
It is also oversimplified to say “Iraqis” don’t trust Americans. Kurds want us there, the Shi’ite leadership does not, because we would interfere with their dictating to other minorities and ripping them off (as Maliki did). The last thing that they want is some kind of honest broker in their domestic politics.