[caisson71]

"To the victor goes the spoils". I'd say this was the first step of victory for the Iraqi people.

[Tokhtamish]

If we had betrayed the Kurds to the Turks we could have made things easy for ourselves. Similarly if we would betray both Kurds and Shiites by ruling through Tikriti colloborators in classic imperial fashion we would make postwar governance easy for ourselves. But we're not shopping for a quisling thug to do our dirty work.

The Anglosphere has demonstrated that it will win because it has the will, the purpose, and moral vision.