Duplicity, how we love thee. Yet another example of how Washington has made the world is the way it is.

With friends like US…

http://original.antiwar.com/Reese_Erlich/2017/11/06/us-sells-kurds/

But the events of 2014 did cement closer ties between the US and Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) led by President Masoud Barzani. The Iraqi Army had collapsed in the face of the ISIS offensive. The Kurdish armed forces, known as peshmerga, were the only reliable Iraqi fighters allied with the US in 2014. The peshmerga moved into the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed areas, expanding the Kurdish Region by 40% with the tacit approval of the US. Read the rest of this entry »