So will we support an Iranian backed Shia Baghdad government in a bloody sectarian civil war against the Sunni Islamists?

Part of me would think letting them "thin the herd" might be fitting!

Just get the Christians out of the way, and keep Jordan, Lebanon and Israel out of it.

"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
 Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)