Given the wave of commentary against current conditions in Iraq...one has to wonder how does this all end.
Clearly, Dubya & Co and the Neocons made a horrible mistake... But what now...how to you restore Iraq as a viable nation?
Perhaps you don't...!
The notion of US forces "fighting" to install an Iranian backed Shia government in Baghdad...and calling THAT success is outrageous!
But the Sunnis, our old allies, are now "the enemy!"
Perhaps the only way out is through the Kurds...and an INDEPENDANT KURDISTAN.
The Kurds would certainly "welcome" US forces to stay and "protect" the oil fields which the Kurds now seek to control in the north part of old Iraq, (Now de-facto Kurdistan).
Absent using the Kurds as a "way out"...the only other "end game" for the war is to have Dubya and the Neocon fabricators of this unmitigated disaster tried (eventually) as war criminals for starting an unlawful war...because the old Iraq is no more...and it will never be restored.
Saddam's Iraq is gone! Like it or not...it will never be put back in place.
So why not simply TAKE THE NORTHERN OIL FIELDS AND RUN....!
Then, Declare the bottom two thirds of Iraq "a democracy," and move US forces into the New Kurdistan to "stabilize" things, (Turkey would surely like to have an ally in the New Kurdistan).
Let the Sunnis and the Shias fight it out? Then, let the UN sort it all out later.
