So we team up with Iran against ISIS .. Iran who is working on a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel and the US, which if they get access to same oil you are worried about ISIS getting , will use that oil to fund that little project.
I’m not seeing a clear strategy here.
If we don’t want either one to get the oil then why don’t we just make Iraq the 51st State and be done with it? (Never mind the precedent that sets).
“If we don’t want either one to get the oil then why don’t we just make Iraq the 51st State and be done with it?”
We don’t need to make them a state - just an ally, but that possibility is gone I think. We won’t go back and fight in Iraq. And remember the saying about “makes odd bedfellows”. Like Saudi Arabia. Or heck - Red China during Vietnam. But, like in Vietnam we make an ally, and then abandon them.