This week the world’s attention is focused on the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal. But another highly consequential event in the Washington-Tehran struggle will take place Saturday: Iraq’s national elections.
Four years after Islamic State exploded onto the scene, Iraq has survived, recovered and beaten expectations. Debates about whether the U.S. should have invaded in 2003, or left in 2011, are for historians. What matters today is that the U.S. has a significant interest in continuing to maintain...