MESOP : AN ILLUSION CALLED “IRAQ”

Retweeted Fazel Hawramy (@FazelHawramy): “Iraq exists only in the minds of people in the White House,” says Masrour Barzani, the Kurdish intelligence chief http://t.co/R2uAwCbXj0

The U.S. wants the Kurds to do two potentially incompatible things: fight ISIS and resist seceding from Iraq. Dexter Filkins reports.
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