Today The New York Times' Tom Friedman writes from the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq. Tom is worth reading when his topic is MENA - the Middle East and North Africa - as it is here.
His basic point: while Obama may have been correct to reduce U.S. involvement in the region, the President now appears to be too withdrawn. Friedman argues for U.S. (and European) support of fledgling democracies in Tunisia and Kurdistan, both of which are threatened.
He pointedly fails to deal with how angry U.S. engagement with the Kurds will make the Turks. Turkey can retaliate by dumping hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe.
