"Iraq As We Know It Is Gone"

by JASmius

How bad have things gotten in Iraq?  Joe Biden's old tripartite partition scheme between the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites is now the best case scenario:

The country of Iraq is, for all intents and purposes, dead and has been replaced by three successor states, former CIA director General Michael Hayden told Newsmax TV Wednesday.

"The state of Iraq as we know it is gone, and it's not going to be reconstituted," he told "The Steve Malzberg Show."

"It's certainly not going to be reconstituted by [Prime Minister] Nouri al-Maliki.''

He said the only way out of the Iraq mess might be a science fiction-type scenario.

"[I'd] get in the way-back machine, go back three years and undo some incredibly unwise decisions that we made then. That's really the nub of the issue,'' he said.

"Incredibly unwise" in the sense of the original mission in Iraq - to free it from Saddamite tyranny, remove it as a state sponsor of terrorism and WMD developer and distributor, and establish it as both a U.S. ally and geopolitically central base from which to similarly liberate Iran and Syria.  Absolutely essential, however, in terms of Barack Hussein Obama's goal for the entire Middle East: to facilitate the rise and establishment of the eventual Global Islamic Caliphate.  That "Mission Accomplished!" banner has already been hung in the Oval Office, as we've previously discussed.

It also precludes General Hayden's policy advice:

"We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now. We should give help to the Maliki government, sufficient to settle the current conflict so it just doesn't turn into a humanitarian disaster," Hayden said.

"For example, there's fighting around Beiji right now, the oil refinery north of Baghdad. Baghdad needs that for that part of the country to survive, and so we've got to settle the lines of this conflict in a way that Nouri al-Maliki's surviving state, which I'll call Shiastan, has Beiji within it.

"Then we've got Sunnistan, and that's the state under the control of ISIS right now, and frankly, we've got to treat that as if it were a safe haven for terrorists and begin to think about it the way we had thought about Waziristan for the last decade-plus. That's a tough message, and I'm afraid that's where we are.

"Now we're at a point where we really don't have good options," Hayden told Malzberg.

The only thing preventing the massacre of the Kurds at the moment is the fact that "Kurdistan" overlaps Turkey, and the Turks would be a much tougher nut to crack for ISIS than Iraq has been.  Which is fortunate for them, because we can rest assured that Barack Hussein Obama isn't going to lift a finger off his putter to help them in any way, shape, or form.  Ditto the Shiites in southern Iraq and their Iranian patrons.  That's why a tripartite partition is now the best case scenario: it's a balance of insanity that might actually hold for a while.  If it doesn't, you've got a full-blown regional war that could even bring Iran and Turkey into direct conflict for the title of Middle East hegemon.  Hell, if Vladimir Putin wasn't so occupied with conquering Ukraine, you could even see the Russians opportunistically intervening on the pretext of their Syrian client.

This, once again, is the inevitable result of what Charles Krauthammer described the other day as "America receding".



Without the United States serving as the global cultural, economic, and military superpower, the benevolent global hegemon, the world will descend into chaos, war, and ultimate self-destruction.  Period.  It is inevitable.  How do I know this?  Look at the last time the U.S. tried to withdraw into itself in a fit of isolationism and "let the world go its own way".  That period being the two decades after the First World War.  Without the U.S. being engaged in international affairs as the imperial great power it had become at the end of the nineteenth century, the rest of the world "went its own way," the global economy collapsed, belligerent regional hegemons arose in the form of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia, small crises and wars multiplied as the 1930s progressed (Italy vs. Ethiopia and Greece, the reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, the Sudetenland crisis, the Japanese invasions of Manchuria and China, the "Winter War" between the USSR and Finland), and ultimately, civilization plunged itself into an even bigger conflagration that slaughtered upwards of eight times as many lives, engulfed four continents instead of just one, set the table for the next global struggle (the Cold War), and, oh yes, ushered in the nuclear age.

All of that was allowed to happen, not because the League of Nations "had no teeth," not because the U.S. wasn't a part of it, but because America withdrew into itself.  It illustrated a basic, fundamental geopolitical truth: It is not possible for America to withdraw from the rest of the world.  Why?  Because the rest of the world will not leave us alone to do so.  Each inch we retreat, our enemies will seize.  They will maintain contact, becoming more and more emboldened as they see greater and greater goals enter the realm of possibility the more our flight grows.  Even conquering and/or destroying us outright.

That lesson was indelible eighty years ago.  How much more so it is now.  And yet isolationism is the core of the Obama Doctrine.  Which is why I do not believe that Obamunist foreign policy is merely stubborn, blind-guide zealotry, but it in fact deliberate, calculated, treasonous sabotage.

Let the world go its own way, and all its "bad guys" will, sooner or later, batter down our doors and kill us all.  Except for Barack Hussein Obama, of course.  The New Order will need its Lord Haw-Haws, after all.