About the Iraqi Challenges

--I'm really glad General Dempsey is holding to a policy of limited US military engagement in Iraq.  There's an obvious civil war going on among the Islamic internal and external factions occupying the country. By permitting the Kurds their own provincial governance, thus extending to them the status of virtual independence from the rest of the country, the US has through the years promoted the notion of a tri-partite land.  Now, it seems inevitable that such a land configuration will become reality. The only way to re-instate a unified government, to my way of thinking, is through a strong military dominance throughout the nation.  But by favoring the Kurdish Republic, with its own military organizations, the US makes such a plan unlikely to work in the short run.

--It seems that the Iraq political situation through the last 8 years is similar to what was encountered by the Egyptian military when Morsi was in power.  Just like Prime Minister Iraqi al-Maliki,  Morsi favored the political faction he was a leader of; and put his cronies in top governmental positions.  Maliki has not only stacked the government with Shiites, he's made his cronies the benefactors of goodies bestowed upon its military generals and high ups--firing Sunni generals as needed by him.
But Egypt's military toppled that corrupt government, whereas the US has permitted 8 years of Shite favoritism in Iraq.  It can't be erased easily; and moreover, the Sunnis have yet to find their own leadership in the Baghdad government.