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"The only logical outcome is for Iraq to split into three parts."

So we in the world community then recognize the legitimate government authority of ISIS? That is in effect what you are saying. Oh, and by the way, they have a good part of Syria also, so I guess we just give them that. And I guess they will be satisified after we give them all of this, right? They won't try to invade other SUNNI dominant areas like Jordan, right? And when Turkey invades the new Kurd country, (as they have stated in the past that they will do if the Kurds are ever allowed to have their own country) we just let that happen also, right? Who knows what consequences ensure after that.

This was one country and relatively peaceful by the end of 2009. We could have kept our thumb on top of the sectarian violence if we would have stationed the 15,000 troops there as the Generals recommended in the first place. When Obama said we'll keep 3,000, Malaki knew he did not have a serious negotiating partner (which he didn't) and he went his own way (by demanding the unreasonable SOFA requirements).

Bush won the war, Obama lost the peace. Every successful transition from war to peace has required us keeping troops there (Germany, Japan, Korea).

So what's the solution? I'm one of those who doesn't think we should've toppled any of those Mideast dictators. I don't know why, after not disintegrating ISIS when the US could've done that, we didn't switch allegiance to Assad. Why did the US unfriend him, anyway? He defended Christians and other minorities and ran a civilized country.

I just don't know how it's solved. Now, Sunni has come to mean a government that will lay down their arms to ISIS. And the Kurds? Well, yeah, the Turkish Kurds are going to want to join an independent Kurdistan. Good....they're the only ones who have been unequivocal in opposing ISIS.

At this point, Europe and the US have to worry about our own survival. And the DC crowd is STILL finding ways to inundate us with invaders and to ship jobs overseas.

There's no good answer. Want to put Iraq back together? It'll take a ruthless dictator. And who wants that?