Where is the most advantageous place for us to lose it next? There are lots of places and and stuff to freak out about. They just don’t have Kirkuk in them. Then you had the threat to trade Iraq’s oil in Euros. There are other countries in the region for extraction.
As much as anything,we must control the terms on which these countries wage war,including civil war, and also how they make peace internally and with their neighbors, and how things are setup for us to wage war against one of more of them.