Splitting Iraq and withdrawing into an independent Kurdistan simply puts our troops into a Dien Bien Phu situation where we are completely surrounded by people quite unhappy with us. No land traffic will get through and we'd be reliant on escorting air supply missions into an airhead (the air equivalent of a beachhead) through hostile airspace.
Bad idea, people. Bad idea. Putting our forces in Kurdistan would require lots of airheads to implement. I don't want to rely on airheads for this to work.
Or do we have more than enough airheads to put this plan in place?
Andrew Sullivan (tip to Belmont Club), tired of American forces standing between Shia and Sunni Arabs in central Iraq, wants us to retire north to stand between Turks and Kurds.
That's quite a choice to advocate. But we can count one airhead for the planned redeployment, at least.
