Iran steps into Obama's Iraq vacuum

I woke up this morning with the outline of a keyboard on my forehead :-)

In an earlier post, I reported that Iran is shipping weapons to Hezbullah (Lebanon - in response to the person who asked in the comments) via Iraq, in order to avoid the alleged Israeli air strikes that have plagued those shipments in Syria.

The use of Iraq as a transit point is just one symptom of a wider and deeply