Mark Steyn: Helicopters on the Roof

SteynOnlIne ^ | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | Mark Steyn

[redleghunter]

In other words, another trademark Obama disaster.

Indeed it is. However, Malki is to be blamed as well. Even before we departed Iraq Malki was already reneging on the Sunni amnesty plan and promise to share cabinet power and economic (read oil revenue) royalities. So with no US forces to push Malki in the direction of compromise, the Sunnis really had no one to turn to but themselves. The Malki gov't and the Shia have Iran, and now the Sunnis have ISIS much to their own detriment (as they will find out and remember also from 2004-2006).

So Arab on Arab and Persian on Arab head chopping and blood shed will continue. We would be best to let them at their old game and not involve ourselves this time.

[Hardastarboard]

Every time 0bama said "the real war is in Afghanistan" during his campaign I wanted to puke. He was (and is) completely clueless about what is really going on in the world and had no idea whether the real action was in Afghanistan or not.

In fairness, the Middle East is a nightmare that no one can unravel, but 0bama has without doubt made it worse.

[Gritty]

Who needs Pravda when a free people are happy to live at this level of delusion?

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[nascarnation]

[JLS]

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Thanks for the ping Servant of the Cross.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.