into other parts of the middle east? is it also not allowing the kurds to have a northern portion of iraq controlled by the kurds? basically taking iraq and breaking it into three chunks? is that in the best interest of the united states? what is in the best interest of the united states at this hour? preventing chaos from spreading and spill over. yes. what you don t want look, it s a sunni she a problem and wildly complicated. the cobs sequences are pretty clear. if the gulf states, saudi arainia, imman, qatar. feel there is going to be this powerful, scary shiite state right there, it gives them a lot of incentive to arm up in the way that destabilizes the whole region. these militants are going city by city. the president says he has ruled out ground force attacks so he is going to launch some sort of air strikes. that would be difficult in some ways because there could be potential civilian casualties as these small groups are moving all over. you also bring up the