re: #132 austin_blue

Well, Joe is a Realpolitik kind of guy. His suggestion, back in the days when he was still in the Senate, that Iraq should be broken up into a three-part Republic, Shiaa, Sunni, and Kurdish, is looking more and more intelligent, isn’t it?

Major fuck-up by Cameron, today. The UK is off the table except in a support role. It appears to be us and the French. Which is okay, as the French Air Force is killer bee.

Yeah he proposed something similar to what happened in Yugoslavia. Something I remember being derided at the time but I agree with you looks more and more intelligent especially given that Iraq itself is an invented modern state created out of the ashes of the former Ottoman Empire.