It's called a "dang" in the situation room,, because Pence.
The two commas are man and wife comma. Just one comma would be risking adultery.
Yes. I sent in the post some time ago. I misread the situation as Baghdad invading Kurdistan in response to the Kurdish referendum. Now it seems they're just restoring the status quo pre-ISIS and the Kurds aren't really fighting.
They got a bye so we can skip to Israel-Iran.
8 Maybe the Kurdish faction bought off by the Iranians isn't fighting?
They're probably all waiting for Trump to do something stupid enough to give them cover for something.
10: It seems no special explanation is needed:
https://www.juancole.com/2017/10/reasons-baghdad-kirkuk.html
11: No doubt this will be true for just about any situation for the duration of the administration.