Posted on 06/10/2014 7:47:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah, they are running to fill the power void we left behind.
This is so bad. We won’t waste anymore blood there, but when ISIS has their own country, things are going to stink for everyone in the world. They are the worst of the worst.
Remember South Viet Nam after the Democrats gained control of the Senate and refused to honor treaties?
Deja vu all over again ping. RE: Helicopters away
In order for the US to have had any kind of lasting influence in the region we would have needed a military presence there for at least 50 years. We barely had boots on the ground before there were calls for an exit strategy. Add to that the disastrous rules of engagement our military had to contend with and you have a formula for failure.
This is what happens when we lack resolve or purpose or leaders but I want you to note carefully who this is not.. This is not Iran. This is not Shia. This is Sunni. 9/11 was Sunni. Nidal Hassan ( the terrorist at Ft Hood) was Sunni,The AlQaeda is Sunni.The Taliban is Sunni.The Muslim Brotherhood in Sunni. We as a nation are busy watching “American idle” and being lead woefully ignorant by our Government about who the real enemy is. Until we know the enemy,it is hard to know who to kill. The policy of our government is stereo type. “They all look the same”. It is dark age analyses. Do you know, for example, who does all suicide bombing?—— you guessed it. WAKE UP.
And Iraq just took possession of its first Blk 52 F16...and is supposed to get more...this could be an interesting turn of events if the goat humpers get a squadron or two of F16’s.
Realizing of course that they’ll need pilots that are worth a damn...otherwise, the birds will just be static displays.
I wonder if 0 will continue to send the F16’s to Iraq knowing how they’re faring against AQ...this would be a “tell”.
In Korea too.
But GM is alive…
(from FReeper carriage_hill on another thread)
Jumper seems to get it.
“They have already seized the Shergat air base in Salahuddin”, Nujaifi said, adding that terrorists laid their hands on weapon depots, heavy equipment and army helicopters from abandoned army bases in Mosul. Holy cow...
“There were still nazi sympathizers in postwar Germany who tried to carry on a guerrilla war against the allies but within a couple of years the German people themselves rose up against them.”
Those “insurgents” that were caught were promptly executed by occupation forces. They were not given 3 hots, a cot, and a copy of “Mein Kampf”.
Bingo. It starts with that monstrosity on the East River.
RE: But GM is alive…
Actually GM killed people too...
Whoever is training the other side is doing better than us and also doing better at recruitment. What is our purpose if they don’t want us?
The German people held a national day of protest against the nazi insurgents. I can’t remember what it was called but they encouraged each other to turn in those who refused to give up the fight.
Iran would love to have F-16s.
There are those, right here on FR even, that have said that this is Bush's fault, because we never should have been there in the first place.
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