Musicmystery
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Well it makes a difference inside Iraq anyway. An NPR story a few weeks back reported on war lords calmly watching. What they wanted was their corrupt president gone, and ISIS was doing that for them. Their take was that "we'll deal with ISIS when the time comes," meaning they'd pick up arms and clean out ISIS. And since Al Qaeda wants nothing to do with them, that certainly appears to be a difference, if not to ethnocentric Americans. Whether the warlords can or will follow through, who knows. Right now, Iraq is falling apart into three regions, which is really what the sunni, shia, and kurdish residents largely wanted since before the beginning. With a Kurdish president now with Shia and Sunni left and right hands, we'll have to see. But Al Qaeda's goals are very different -- they are concerned about Saudi Arabia and the US, including intervention in the US. And they are sunni vs. sunni. So if not to us, there is a big fuck all difference on the ground.
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