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Heck of a thing going on in the middle east.

Long time ally of the United States, the Kurds,

biggest group in the world that doesn't have their own country.

Uh, are now trying to carve out their own country

and the Iraqis are saying, oh no, no, you're not.

And with US weapons and with the help of the Iranians

are full on enemy.

They're taking on our ally, the Kurds,

but when President Trump was asked about it the other day,

he said, we're staying out of it.

Which a lot of you want to do.

I know I look at the texts and all that sort of stuff.

A lot of you want to stay out of these fights

because they often don't do us any good.

And while Jack's preliminary description was very good,

it gets way more complicated than that when you're talking

about the Kurds in the area they hope to, uh, to run.

So we've peeled to Liz Slaybe,

root bureau chief for the Washington Post

for her insights.

Hello, Liz, how are you?

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