Iraq IS a hard place…

Things seemed to be going so well, and then? They weren’t. This last week has seen what looks like a full-fledged civil war beginning in Iraq. What happened? The U.S. left, elections were held and things moved along. Some sort of balance seemed to be holding among Sunnis, Shia and Kurds. And then it wasn’t. Alliances were made. Reports have former Bath party members joining with Sunnis. Militants and foreign fighters, too radical even for Al Qaeda, called ISIS, marched on Baghdad. The government of prime minister Nouri al-Malaki seems powerless to stop them.  The U.S. said it won’t intervene, but that it will…send advisors and maybe… What is going on?  From the “Arab Spring” to this? What is going on? Log in and let us know your opinion.