Why is the U.S. is dropping bombs to defend the Kurdish city, two and a half years after American troops left Iraq?

Source: www.newyorker.com

"Obama’s defense of Erbil is effectively the defense of an undeclared Kurdish oil state whose sources of geopolitical appeal—as a long-term, non-Russian supplier of oil and gas to Europe, for example—are best not spoken of in polite or naïve company, as Al Swearengen would well understand. Life, Swearengen once pointed out, is often made up of ‘one vile task after another.’ So is American policy in Iraq."

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