My intell friends have been watching this development in Iraq for the past several weeks. They insist everything is unraveling behind the scenes. They say it is not just a matter of money drying up — rather, the Shi’ites are soaking up all the money to keep their own militias and Shi’a-heavy “national” units loyal and willing to begin the unavoidable / inevitable Shi’a crackdown on the Kurds and Sunnis.

unless the Shi’ite Arabs can feel secure in their position as the dominant majority population and the Sunni and Kurds accept their new/old roles as the underclass, the Shi’ite Arabs will remain dependent upon US and increasingly on Iranian Khomeini’ist support and thus will cause us more problems.

One cannot stop an ethno-religious war in mid-course, resolve nothing, and expect everyone to just live side by side in peace when the war-stoppers leave.

We need to disengage from these places