Posted on 06/14/2014 1:35:36 AM PDT by nikos1121
We had 3000 martyrs. Hopey Changey trumped them.
That kind of behavior on the Iraqi military’s part says to me that they are in collusion with the monsters herein referred to.
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It is most interesting that the Iraqi officers slipped off in the night at the same time sleeper old guard officers of Saddam Hussein’s hooked up with ISIS. The scale of this makes one wonder if our present intelligence structure is either clueless or compromised.
What baffles me is, this should be no surprise to anyone over there. If you know that when captured you will die in a cowardly manner, then fight to the death! Never let yourself be tied up or restrained. Take at least one other of the enemy with you, if possible.
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I think one of the things at work here is a moral ascendancy. Our pitch of a government and culture is not a sell to them. How can one take believing Moslems and make them overnight into Jeffersonian yeoman?
One of the reasons ISIS is ripping through the area like this may be that many of the Sunni feel like sellouts, that the ISIS line is correct.
The sparks will really fly when the Sunnis and Shi’ites mix it up.
Then these 2011 articles by Washington Times: "The U.S. and Iraq had been in talks about keeping more American troops there beyond 2011, but Iraqi leaders, facing fierce domestic political cross-currents, refused to give U.S. soldiers immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts. The U.S. refused to allow its soldiers to stay without such a guarantee."
That is a brilliant summary of the past two decades of American involvement in the Middle East.
“They are not taking action because they WANT ISIS to win. These are the people Obama has been giving arms to in Syria, who have decided that taking over Iraq is easier than winning against Assad.”
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We can’t forget John McCain either. He is neck deep in these malicious destabilization policies as well. He should not get a pass.
Thank you.
There’s an article on the side bar that says Iran kept us from staying. If all this is true then Obama probably is holding a huge grudge against Malaki, and now when the guy comes crawling he’s letting him and his people spin.
Funny how mr hope and change is the most hated man on the planet. Maybe in like ten years he’ll get a feel for the office but for now the guy is a rank amateur.
You’d think as petty as he is, he’d wipe out his adversaries...or at least threaten. He doesn’t understand the walk softly carry a big stick...thingy.
I’ve said it for years on here, this Islamic or Islamist mess in the ME started in Iran in 1978-79. Once Khomeini managed to seize power in Iran, it emboldened other Islamists to follow suit or try to. It is gradually getting worse.
You’re welcome. You are one of few who may actually understand. You are most welcome.
Yeah probably
I don’t think anyone can argue that. The Shah had the second most prosperous country in the world at the time. Sure they had their problems, but the country flourished with writers, doctors, engineers etc.
THen thanks to that sob Jimmy Carter, he was left alone.
We have the same short sighted pos in the WH now who couldn’t leave a modicum of troops there to keep the peace.
And my dad was a ten year old Belgian in a Nipponese concentration camp for three years. It’s all he and my uncle talk about when they get together
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