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Iraq
To save Iraq, the U.S. military must work with Iran's Revolutionary Guard
2015-06-07
[Rooters]
BLUF
The tectonic plates are shifting in the Middle East. The United States must do what it can to assure longstanding regional allies that it will abide by security commitments, but it must not box itself into outdated thinking. Iranian and American national-security interests converge in defeating Islamic State. Many other differences will remain.

Only a dispassionate approach to talking to our adversaries could help induce similar cooperation from Iran in Iraq. Such an effort would be in line with the best traditions of an American foreign policy that produced rapprochement with China and detente with the Soviet Union. Talking to Rouhani has us on the precipice of a nuclear accord. Talking to the Revolutionary Guard could help reverse the tide against Islamic State.
Ahg! The foreign policy successes of China and the FSU? Don't forget to check out the author, 'Middle East Expert' and oil man Amir Handjani and a extend a golf clap to Rooters for this excellent piece of kak.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Screw "Iraq". Its no longer a nation. Support our only real allies in the area, Kurdistan. Let the Shia bastards fight those sunni bastards.

ValJar the Iranian handler of Obama has us teaming up with Iran.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-06-07 23:10  

#6  See BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Indepedent.UK] THE WAR WITH ISIS: AS THE MILITANT THREAT GROWS SO DOES THE WEST'S SELF-DECEPTION, i.e. Govt-Medias spinning or proclaiming military setbacks, stalemates, + defeats as "victories/successes".

and

* WORLD NEWS > [Real Clear Politics] FIVE REASONS WHY THE US CAN'T DEFEAT THE ISIS.

Reasons given or denoted are Simple, but Brutal.

* TOPIX > [Al-Bawaba] DAESH IS GETTING STRONGER WHILE WESTERN COUNTRIES [Leaders] TWIDDLE THEIR THUMBS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-06-07 22:08  

#5  Globalist-to-Globalist, Co-Superpower-to-Co-Superpower.

MANO-E-MANO.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-06-07 19:40  

#4  "Talking to Rouhani has us on the precipice of a nuclear accord."

I can't think of a question to which the correct answer is "Work with the Revolutionary Guard", other than maybe "How do you best go about destroying Israel?"
Posted by: Matt   2015-06-07 11:46  

#3  Such an effort would be in line with the best traditions of an American foreign policy

Just ask the Vietnamese.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 10:31  

#2  Such an effort would be in line with the best traditions of an American foreign policy that produced rapprochement with China and detente with the Soviet Union.

Jury is still out. Meanwhile Iran continues to work on its nukes.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-06-07 08:42  

#1  Yes, that's why there's ISIS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 07:38  

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