More Kagans

Kimberly Kagan out to prove that you can never have enough Kagans: "The U.S. should encourage the Iraqi government to defeat Iran's proxies and agents, and should provide the requisite assistance." As Marc Lynch observes defeating Iran's friends in Iraq would require the leading figures in Iraq's government to defeat themselves somehow. Of course the best way to have curtailed Iranian influence in Iraq would have been to not invade the country. But at this point, an Iraq where Iran has substantial influence is essentially inevitable and we may as well try to reconcile ourselves to that fact and figure out ways to deal with it. Alternatively, we got adopt the Joe Lieberman strategy and start fighting made-up organizations like "al-Qaeda in Iran." Sounds fun!

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