Kurdistan

[Kagemusha]

Apparently Iraqi troops have given a deadline of 23:00 gmt today for Peshmerga to withdraw from threir positions at the border of Kirkuk province.

[Husar]

So the two enemies of ISIS that we paid and armed are now going to fight one another?
Is that another foreign policy victory?

I personally see the biggest problem here with the Iraqi side because however imperfect the Kurds may be at times, the Iraqi government failed to protect them and the very least they earned for fighting for themselves and in favor of the failing government would have been a thank you and a place at a table for talks over how to proceed. Just demanding they surrender now seems a bit...power hungry and arrogant?

Perhaps I'm missing something (not an expert on the area and didn't follow every event), but it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.