Posted on 05/18/2015 8:41:47 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
“...Strategy to defeat Islamic State is working,’ US Department of Defense claims...”
*ROFLMAO*
We are in agreement.
also people that love to fight have probably run off and joined isis while guys just looking for a gubmint paycheck join up with the Iraqi army. if you lack a warrior spirit you are useless in a battle. worse your are a liability
Michael: Maybe. But it occurred to me, the soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael: They can win.
I swear, Bagdad Bob got hired into this foolish Odumbo administration.
Iraqis have a warrior spirit, and that's the problem. Warriors are opportunists - they fight for loot, women and land. Soldiers fight for pay, and they are drilled to think of retreat as dishonorable and (counter-intuitively, to most non-ISIS Arabs) being worse than death. This probably has to do with the fact that many warriors are part-timers for whom war is just one of many things they do to feed their families, whereas soldiers are professionals for whom war is a calling. This was why Roman soldiery kept brushing aside farmer-warriors from neighboring regions until they began funding and training professional soldiers of their own.
If past stories about corruption in military formations apply in Iraq's case, the odds are that significant numbers of Iraqi soldiers exist only on paper - to draw salaries and money for supplies for the officers who made up those names. And where actual personnel are present, they are short on supplies because their superiors took the money and used it to pad their bank accounts. And the likelihood is that very little realistic training occurred - because ammunition costs money. And in many cases, many of the "soldiers", where the names represent real people, are civilians who never showed up for work.
The Kurds are supposed to be a cut above. I saw a training video that showed recruits jumping through burning metal hoops. I figured there and then that it was a shambolic mess. And I was right - ISIS rolled right over them until coalition aircraft showed up.
It’s been shown that a lot of the leaders of Isis are former Baathist from Iraq. It explains their brutality and why the Iraqi army flee from them. However, it still makes them cowards. They drop weapons and flee leaving women and children behind to be slaughtered and worse.
I wish there was a way to save the Christians from over there and then nuke the rest. But I have no idea how we could do that.
i agree. a genocide is being committed. im sure in 20 years someone will do a documentary on it and everyone will be saying “why didn’t anyone do something about it?” when the answer is obvious....look who is in charge
I agree with what you are saying but when I referred to warriors I wasn’t thinking “barbarians” which is kind of what you are describing when you spoke of the romans pushing aside farmer-warriors. when I referred to warrior spirit, I was talking about the “warrior ethos” of a professional soldier. if you lack that professional mentality you are nothing more than a barbarian (like youre saying)....I think we are saying the same thing
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