Friday, February 12, 2016
Good Article
I noticed an excellent article in USA Today's online opinion section: "Top Threat to Kurds is not ISIL." To be sure, Adam Sulkowski is speaking only of Iraqi Kurdistan: in Syria the situation is somewhat different. And yet he is correct in noting that we typically focus only on the Peshmerga's success fighting ISIS. We neglect the fact that Iraqi Kurdistan has, at present, serious economic difficulties that threaten its viability as a military partner. What Sulkowski doesn't mention is that political divisions in Iraqi Kurdistan are just as damaging as its economy. In any case, if we would like te Kurds as a long-term ally, we will need to provide economic and politcal assistance (in the form of advisors, not money) in adddition to weapons.
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