This is exactly the thing Bush promised the Arabs would not happen. Turkey feared Kurdistan. Saudi’s feared a new Shiastan. Everybody else feared a new Sunistan. Now, everybody’s fears have appeared and then some.
On the good side, they’ll be fighting each other over the oil for a long time to come. On the bad side, somebody will be selling the oil that they get and will at some point be very rich and very radicalized.
Had a poster last week explain that the Turks don’t like the communist Kurd terror group the PKK, but that they do like this group in Iraq, and he gave their initials but I forget them....something like GKP???
au contraire’, my FRiend. Turkey couldn’t be more pleased - and, in a when-pigs-fly policy change, are embracing a Kurdish state:
http://time.com/2898883/iraq-turkey-kurd-isis/
Turkey had no skin in the game and they refused to allow the US to drive an armor assault across the Turkish border. Therefore their desires should have been ignored.
If only he’d had known that a great big ZerØ would follow him. His promiss might have been kept.
As for your last: Drill baby, drill! And keep it in country. No exports! No imports either. Let’s throw the oil market into a tizzy.
Time for a non-interventionist policy: not because we oppose interventionism, but because the people cannot be trusted to vote in a POTUS who will follow thru on predecessor’s interventions. Better nobody expect such involvement, than to rely on it only to have an Obama abandon them.
Just a thought.