These posts seem interconnected very much mesta...one hand feeds the other.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are still locked in a power struggle for control of the ummah. What you see happening in Iraq with this election is an Iraqi rejection of shia Iran.
Iran supporters murder a Sunni, (saudi supporter,) and so it goes.
While the Kurds hate BOTH.
NEITHER shia nor sunni is our friend, but the Kurds would fight FOR us. Yet we do not support them nearly as much as we should...and under daddy bush, we allowed their slaughter after asking them to do just that. When they did, Saddam used chemical weapons on them and we never raised a finger to help them.
The US has often proved itself a fickle ally...and NOW it is worse than it has ever been.