Today’s
reality is that Iraq and Syria as we have known them are gone. The
Islamic State has carved out a new entity from the post-Ottoman Empire
settlement, mobilizing Sunni opposition to the regime of President
Bashar al-Assad and the Iran-dominated government of Iraq. Also
emerging, after years of effort, is a de facto independent Kurdistan.
If,
in this context, defeating the Islamic State means restoring to power
Mr. Assad in Syria and Iran’s puppets in Iraq, that outcome is neither
feasible nor desirable. Rather than striving to recreate the post-World
War I map, Washington should recognize the new geopolitics. The best
alternative to the Islamic State in northeastern Syria and western Iraq
is a new, independent Sunni state.
If it makes you feel any better, Joe Biden was saying things like this years ago.
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