Iraq: "Bright Spot In The Middle East"

Via Meadia: 

The Middle East is looking pretty dismal for the Obama administration right now. That peace process he was going to revive between Israelis and Palestinians? No US president since Richard Nixon has gotten less done on that front. The Arab Spring that was going to open a new era in US-Arab relations and turn power over to liberal, social-media empowered activists? Hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood or massacred by Syrian goons. The “good war” in Afghanistan, the “war of necessity” that a brilliant and wise Obama strategy would rescue from the bungling neglect of those Bush-era lunkheads? The less said about it these days, the better. The peace process with Iran? In tatters, as the Iranians crush our hopes for a breakthrough time after time.

But there is one bright spot in this dismal region, one country where US efforts have borne fruit. Unfortunately for the president, that country is — Iraq.

 

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