This is an intra Shia dust up and the divide Iraq into Kurd/Sunni/Shia parts wouldn’t have worked. Brandon never gets anything right.
That’s neither his idea nor new.
That was the backup plan for when Iraq fails.
Cut our losses and slavage what we can.
Sad story, Iraq. They had the ingredients for success: pre-existing bureaucracy, infrastructure, something to support an economy, more secular, world open (many Iraqis had been to Europe and N. America pre 1991 war), and less tribal, 60% literacy rate (high for that part of the world). We just didn’t follow the baking instructions (our political process) and we botched it all up.