Iraq Must Be Saved From Extremists
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 19th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Iraq Must Be Saved From Extremists
Michael Gerson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The debate over who lost Iraq is tempting, emotionally satisfying and even, in some cases, historically instructive. But it is not the focus of serious foreign policy thinkers and former government officials I’ve encountered over the last few days. Their general response is not recrimination; it is fear. Particular, reasoned, fully justified fear. Iraq threatens to become a mirror of Syria, with Iran supporting a proxy Shiite army and the Gulf states siding with Sunni Islamists who will fight against Shiite-Iranian dominance of the region. Some experts talk of the “de facto…