Can Iraq Survive Trump?
What does the end of American leadership in the Middle East look like? There’s no better place to find out these days than Iraqi Kurdistan, which is, by any measure, one of the most pro-American places in the world. Kurdistan wouldn’t exist in anything like its current form if not for the intervention of successive […]Susan B. Glasser writes for Politico:
What does the end of American leadership in the Middle East look like?
There’s no better place to find out these days than Iraqi Kurdistan, which is, by any measure, one of the most pro-American places in the world.
Kurdistan wouldn’t exist in anything like its current form if not for the intervention of successive American presidents going back to George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who insisted on protecting the enclave from Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush may be disdained as an occupier elsewhere in Iraq, but he is remembered here as a “liberator” and a “hero” for toppling Hussein, as nearly everyone with whom I spoke here reminds me. And just a couple hours away, in the raging battle to retake the strategic city of Mosul from the terrors of the Islamic State, the fight wouldn’t be possible without assistance from hundreds of American advisers on the ground and pilots in the air.
