Mosul has fallen, and al Qaeda is on the march towards Baghdad

weeklystandard.com ^ | 6/14/2014 | Max Boot

[rktman]

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has long been hard for the central government to control because of its combustible mix of Arabs and Kurds. The first time I visited Mosul was in August 2003 when a tenuous calm was maintained by the 101st Airborne Division. Its commander, a then-obscure two-star general named David Petraeus, had on his own initiative opened the Syrian border to trade, struck deals with Syria and Turkey to provide badly needed electricity, restored telephone service, and held elections to elect local leaders. Along the way he also managed to kill Saddam Hussein’s poisonous offspring Uday and Qusay.

[jocon307]

I think we all owe Jimmy Carter an apology. At least Jimmy Carter TRIED.

This Obama is just a complete disaster. Good luck to whoever is president after this nincompoop.

The world is burning and POTUS is golfing. And John “reporting for duty like Ghengis Khan” Kerry is reading a Maya Angelou poem.

I actually think the lefty media is beginning to realize their golem is out of control.

File under: too little too late.

[bray]

Yawn Kerry has caused 2 major killing fields in his pathetic lifetime while being praised by the Marxist media.

Pray America wakes up

[Hotlanta Mike]

Vicious leader of ISIS terrorist group when U.S. forces released him to Iraq: ‘I’ll see you in New York’

http://therightscoop.com/vicious-leader-of-isis-terrorist-group-when-u-s-forces-released-him-to-iraq-ill-see-you-in-new-york/

[Capt. Tom]

Senior intelligence officials have testified recently that they fear Syria could become a launching ground for attacks against the United States.

I am more concerned that the United States could become a launching ground for attacks against the United States. -Tom

[oldbrowser]

This twit has turned victory into defeat in Iraq.

He is now working on losing WWII.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Reason #1: Have you bought your prayer rug yet? And how’s that beard coming along. You don’t still let your wife drive your car, do you?

[Jedidah]

Same thing isolationists said in 1939 when other fascists were seizing territory and plotting to take over the world. They called it a Reich then, a Caliphate now.

That’s the dilemma of freedom-loving people. Peace seems always to be bought with blood.

[equaviator]

Would it be genocide to eradicate a tribe or tribes of people whose agendas include killing all “infidels”? If the people of the world would just acknowledge that our species has the right to protect itself then maybe we can be rid of these anthropologically retarded animals.

[SunkenCiv]

> Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has long been hard for the central government to control because of its combustible mix of Arabs and Kurds.

Mosul is a mostly Kurdish place, and Iran’s client Shiite regime running Iraq has consistently tried to crush both Kurdish autonomy and the large Sunni minority in the Iraqi pseudostate. Mosul is also near the border with Syria, and was a pass-through back when Syria’s Assad regime participated in the terrorists’ war against US and other coalition forces in Iraq, asd during the Gulf War 20 years ago when the late dictator of Syria opposed Saddam, and even before that, during the Iran-Iraq war.

The solution is carving Iraq into several states. Currently Iraq is no different than “black majority rule” in South Africa.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Kurdish-inhabited_area_by_CIA_%281992%29.jpg

[BunnySlippers]

Ha.

[blueunicorn6]

I’ve seen some of our retired military on TV saying that Malaki fired all the Generals our military had trained. That means our military did their job, but our State Department failed miserably.

[Right Brother]

Unfortunately, when the history books about this period in Iraq are written it will be shown that Saddam Hussein was far more effective at dealing with radical Islam in Iraq than George W. Bush ever was.

Exactly. Hussein ruled with an iron fist over zealots that needed to be ruled over with an iron fist. Saddam Hussein was far less a threat to America than the radical Jihadist that are taking over. He was less of an enemy than the Hussein that 'rules' over us from Pennsylvania Ave.

[boycott]

Can you give me a good reason that we should go back in and spill American blood to save people (muslims) that will end up hating us infidels anyway?

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Many of them are not that hard to find in caravans from one city to the next. Blast them from the sky. Do it one good time so you don’t have to go back and do it again.

[justa-hairyape]

Hussein ruled with an iron fist over zealots that needed to be ruled over with an iron fist.

As did/does Assad. You cannot be against replacing Saddam and for replacing Assad. And that is the Obama/Progresso position. It contradicts itself as always.

[Alberta's Child]

Then bomb the sh!t out of them and lay waste to the entire region. Isn't that how it's supposed to be done?

Funny how I don't ever hear this silly, inane bullsh!t from a leader in an Islamic country:

"Islam is a religion of peace."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Dude, that was like three days ago.

[libstripper]

The whole point to be learned from this nation building in Islamic states is that it doesn't work and won't work because of Islam. That leaves us with either trying to obliterate Islam or working within Islamic parameters to prevent terrorism directed at the United States. Dwight Eisenhower got it right in Iran when he deposed an Islamist and reinstated the Shah. Indeed, George Bush got it right when he flipped Quaddafi. In each case the Islamically correct idea was to install a dictator who was our dictator and let him run things provided he restrain the nut cases by whatever means he deemed necessary. Indeed, that also worked with Mubarak in Egypt. An Islamic constitution is very simple: one man rule with few, if any, rights for the subjects, who are actually quite happy that way. In addition, Mudslimes being a form of humanoid plague rats and Islam being pestilential horror, we must do our best to keep them and it out of the USA, another thing Eisenhower did quite well.

[FreeReign]

Unfortunately, when the history books about this period in Iraq are written it will be shown that Saddam Hussein was far more effective at dealing with radical Islam in Iraq than George W. Bush ever was. This is why you don't let Beltway @ssholes put U.S. military personnel in harm's way in some sh!thole halfway around the world. But then I thought we supposedly learned that lesson after Vietnam, didn't we?

Yes and no.

Yes Saddam was far more effective at dealing with radical Islam.

No to your generic statement about not putting military personnel in harms way half way around the world. In the right situation where terrorists who attacked our country are involved, the answer is that we should be involved.

[aimhigh]

Unfortunately, when the history books about this period in Iraq are written it will be shown that Saddam Hussein was far more effective at dealing with radical Islam in Iraq than George W. Bush ever was.

And those history books will be correct. I can't figure out how Bush got the idea that a democracy of 100 million Islamic voters would result in something positive.