My point is, so what?
"Control" of the former Ottoman provinces of Mosul, Basra, and Mesopotamia without a strategic vision to defeat our enemy was, and is, meaningless.
Now you are totally off my original comment about Bush and Cheney having it fairly well under control when they made the handoff to Obama, who handled it incompetently, or as another has said, intentionally mishandled it.
So, if you’re saying the Ottoman Empire shouldn’t have been broken up after WWI, or broken up in the way it was, then I’m with you. But, that wouldn’t relate to my comment at all.