The Ungluing Of The World

I sometimes think I've gone mad.  We're preoccupied with defeating ISIS or ISIL or whatever,  But, we give no stake to those who might become  our greatest allies.  It's obvious.  Let Iraq divide into three parts with the Kurds in the north, the Sunnis in the middle and the Shia in the south.

The Kurds would protect their boundaries.  The Sunnis, who just want to be left alone, would be the main force against the Islamists.  And, the Shia would be happy to live and make money in Iraq's south. So why doesn't this ever occur to our deep thinkers in the State Department?  (Forget about Obama.  He's off on another planet.)

Why don't we give serious armaments to the Kurds instead of asking them to soldier on with inferior weapons and inferior  military assets?  Why do we prevent the Kurds from selling their oil, and define this oil as somehow belonging to a defunct Iraq?   Why don't we tell the Sunnis that they are now free of the Shia in the south?

Of course, American policy in Iraq is not the only sign that people have taken leave of their minds.  Consider that once noble idea, a forum where all the nations could thrash out the problems of the world -- the UN.  Clearly this is an idea which has come apart.  Consider some of the world's problems; the continued abuse of women and gays, the trafficking of children, the taking of the land of one country by a more powerful neighbor, the proclamation of one country of its dedication to  destroy its neighbor, discrimination of minority ethnic groups by majority ethnic groups.  But, where does the UN focusess its attention?  On Israel, a state that offers the highest standards of human rights to women, to gays, and to minority ethnic groups within its borders.  This is not to say that Israel is free of any flaws.  But, when two fires are to be put out, one in a wastepaper basket, and the other in a house where flames are shooing out the basement windows, to which fire should the UN be directing focusing its attention on first?