[Leaning Right]

Joe did not think this up. Many saw it as a possible consequence from the get go.

I hate to say it, but Biden was spot on. Trying to keep Iraq together as a single country after the invasion would have been like trying to keep the Austro-Hungarian Empire together as a single country after WW I.

Impossible! But of course that reality was never considered by the neocons.

[tcrlaf]

“But of course that reality was never considered by the neocons”

It was considered, but if you recall, the media screamed that a “Free Kurdish State” would force Turkey out of NATO.