Iraq: Iraq Crisis: West’s ‘Mandate’ Limited by National Borders – and Don’t Dare Mention Oil

Aug 14, 2014 | The Independent
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In the Middle East, the first shots of every war define the narrative we all dutifully follow. So too, this greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis in Iraq. Christians fleeing for their lives? Save them. Yazidis starving on the mountain tops? Give them food. Islamists advancing on Irbil? Bomb them. Bomb their convoys and “artillery” and their fighters, and bomb them again and again until…