If you did not see this segment on the Daily Show last night, you need to stop right now and watch it.

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Here is the portion that made me stand up and cheer:

"This whole Iraq cluster quagmire catastrophe fuck started back in the 1980's after the Iranian revolution, when America's solution to the Ayatollah was top arm the, at that time, good guy in the region. Or as he was known, hmm Saddam Hussein. We spent the 80's giving Saddam Hussein's Baathists weapons to fight against the Iranians, the 90's helping Kuwait fight against Saddam's Baathists that we armed,  the oughts heading a coalition to destroy Saddam's Baathists, and the teens fighting against those very same unemployed Baathists now going by the name of ISIS, that we originally armed in the 80's to fight Iran. But to really ensure that we have not skated even a micro-meter away from the learning curve, guess who the designated good guy, with a gun, in the region is?"

Cue the footage of new reports identifying Iran as our partner in fighting ISIS.

And Stewart sums it all up with this: "America in the Middle East, learning curves are for pussies."

I thought that was incredibly well done, and it really shows how in the end America is its own worst enemy.