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Who lost Iraq?

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Written by Walter Hecht   
Thursday, 12 June 2014 22:20
The United States never had Iraq so we could not lose it. If anyone deserves credit for losing Iraq, it will be the Nouri al-Maliki government which denies fair treatment to Iraq’s Sunni minority. Now that minority is on the march under the ISIS banner. Iraq is a country of artificial boundaries drawn up by Winston Churchill when the British controlled the area. We are now witness to the beginning of a civil war that will divide Iraq into three parts, a Kurdish north, a central Sunni region, and a Shiite south. The real question now is will Baghdad be a part of the Sunni central, the Shiite south or be divided between the two? The real danger for the US is an independent Kurdistan in the north that Turkey, a NATO ally, may try to prevent its independence by force.
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