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.

[rktman]

This is actually supposed to come out in the June 23rd edition but is already posted on line. I think I got the print version here to help alleviate some of the ad content. But, I did hear/read something yesterday that the ISIS is so brutal that even al qida is trying to keep them at arms length. Regardless, I guess a few hundred headless bodies along side the road won't deter the lyin' king from taking action. No sirree. He's probably tee'in up right now. FORE!

[P-Marlowe]

Has anyone actually seen Osama Bin Laden’s body?

[Farmer Dean]

Didn’t Obama say yesterday that he needed a couple of days to get a plan together.The Iraqis don’t have a couple of days.

[Gaffer]

So.....what is it? Is Obama on the back nine yet out in Palm Springs yet? Is there time enough for another round?

[umgud]

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?

[A CA Guy]

He was gone just like Obama’s education, college writings and birth records.

[massmike]

[mountainlion]

Betrayed again by the demoRats just like when the defunded Viet nam. The republicans will win the next race and come in and clean up the mess again.

[Gaffer]

That’s just old, old news. That’s history! We can’t move forward if you just keep dredging up old news!

The key point to remember here is that Obama is getting a badly needed stint of golf out in Palm Springs right now, and your tired questions about yesterday are just politically driven - you right wing nutjob. [/s :o)]

[rktman]

Priorities FRiend, priorities. Gots some fund raisin and golfin’ to get out of the way before worryin’ about some folks riled up over a video in iraq. Maybe he’s still waitin’ for the report from cnn to show up.

[spiderfern]

We need the military on our southern borders to stop the terrorists coming up with the children from Central America.

[gusopol3]

Iraq does have an elected government but one that roughly half of the population....feels doesn’t represent them.

Which country is he writing about?

[ctdonath2]

All that’s needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

[Sans-Culotte]

I think this just shows that there’s no hope for these Islam dominated cultures. Our policy in the so called WOT should have been extreme isolationalism. Keep the cancer of Islam over there and don’t allow it to get out of the mideast. But, that was never gonna happen.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...al Qaeda is on the march towards Baghdad... and GM has to recall thousands more of it's vehicles.

Way to go Rimshot Joe. You were wrong again. LOL!

[yldstrk]

how do you say eff you Mohammedans in Arabic or whatever it is they speak

[ctdonath2]

I accept that OBL is dead, that it happened outside the Obama’s directive, that hell was paid to those who accomplished that mission, and the Obama subsequently made sure no decision making personnel would oppose him again.

[yldstrk]

to ISIS Go to the devil! عليك اللعنة

[allendale]

The Saudis are funding this “Islamist” offensive. The Iranians will intervene to prevent Baghdad from falling. The Saudis want to create an Arabic speaking Sunni confederation composing of large parts of Iraq and Syria to confront Iran. The Iranians will do what they can to prevent the establishment of a hostile Sunni state on their borders. Battle lines will harden but the political situation will remain fluid. Not clear if the Saudis will be able to consolidate their confederation long term. Best for the US to not get involved.

[Alberta's Child]

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?