Wrong on so many levels. But unexpected, in an age in which arms dealers and the oil execs that keep their machines humming along rule our world.

Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday.  Read more 

Told you so. Keep this in mind anytime you try to understand why “we” do what we do in the Middle East, and why it often fails to work.