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kleinbl00  ·  3829 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: U.S. Warplanes Strike ISIS in Iraq

I would arm the fuck out of the Kurds while also snuggling up to Turkey with all my might. Stephen Kinzer makes a pretty compelling argument that if the United States had any sense, we'd sort our shit out with Iran and double down on those two countries. You make friendly with that region and you have an oil-rich swath of arable land between Saudi Arabia and the Russian near abroad.