The bodies are still piling up from Al Qaeda's massive bombing of Yazidi villages in north Iraq. I think that Peters gets is dead right in this piece on two counts: Those dead and maimed Yazidis were just props:
The intended audience was Congress... we're not really in Iraq for Iraq's sake now, but for our own. The long-mismanaged situation has morphed from a grand attempt to create a model democracy in the Middle East to become a fight for our strategic security - knocking al Qaeda down, keeping Iran out (see sidebar) and shaping a new Iraq that's at least benign where our interests are concerned.
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