There was some small good that came from our intervention. The Kurds have mostly benefited (themselves) by being cut loose from the arabs. Whether they’ll be left alone to thrive is another matter but the start was good. My son deployed twice first to the N in a Kurdish area and then to the south with the arabs. He generally liked the Kurds and their time there was mostly peaceful b/c they (Kurds) didn’t put up w/ the crap going on in the arab areas. His second deployment was vastly different in a negative sense.
I hope the Kurds take over the whole country.