"I served in Viet Nam."
Posted on 06/25/2014 5:58:47 PM PDT by xzins
If this Sunni-Shia conflict was truly being "mediated" by U.S. forces, then the U.S. had no business ever being there in the first place. This would be like a Spanish military force showing up in New York and Montreal in 1755 to mediate a dispute between England and France over control of northeastern North America.
"I served in Viet Nam."
Jon Kery b stuk inn Irak.
If Turkey doesn’t go wobbly on us, a Kurdish alignment with Turkey would stabilize that northern part of Iraq. It would probably scare Iran. Turkey, if it is smart, should absolutely forbid Iran to acquire nuclear capacity. Turkey has access through NATO, and they should remain the only power up there with that access.
No, he recommended himself for a purple heart for the severe pain he was forced to endure due to a tragic handnail on his little finger he uses to pick his nose.
John Kerry is the new Jay Carney at the office.
Kerry still the idiot.
That is probably the dumbest picture ever in the entire world history of politics.
Yep. It got Dukakis off the hook.
Tank, helmet.
Who could forget?
LOL!
But the Kerry Bunny Slippers shot is for the ages.
Agree.
It is more than the partition of Iraq; it is the reversion of all of the artificial boundaries created by Sykes-Picot This will affect Iran, Syria Lebanon and possibly Jordan Let it happen say I
We no longer have any decent influence in Iraq and all of Kerry's "solutions" are not attainable goals but 60s Liberal nostrums which fly in the face of the reality which exists on the ground in Iraq.
1. The Kurds want their own country and now is their chance.
2. The Shiites have failed miserably and will be lucky if they can hold on to what they have left. They are not about to negotiate a deal with their enemies, the Sunnis. They are more likely to enter a deal with their Shiite neighbors in Iran, who already have huge political influence as well as military forces in the country.
3. Why should the Sunnis negotiate? They are winning and thumping their old enemies, the Shiites. Now is the chance to break away from them and the old colonial boundaries.
4. Why should ISIS compromise? They are forming their own Caliphate to attack Israel and the USA, and establish Islam worldwide.
5. The Russians are in the ascendency in the region and are more than willing to help their new friends in the region - Iran and the Iraqi Shiite government. Why do they need us?
We are crazy if we think we can enter this new world with nothing but hollow words and money and get anything we want. We have been shown to be the impotent infidel worthy of nothing but scorn.
Whatever influence we had to advance our own interests left when we withdrew our troops from the ground and gave up the field. Unless we are willing to insert ourselves militarily in a big way again we will be ignored.
Three hundred "advisors" put in there are nothing but beheading video bait. It is just another chance to humiliate the infidels and it will be done and they know we aren't going to do a thing about it except send in John Kerry and our effete State Department to complain, wax windy, and do nothing about it.
Besides, if we refuse to even defend our own borders, why should anybody think we will defend theirs? Why should they even care what we think?
“Was that Obama’s end game?”
A world-wide Caliphate. I believe THAT is Obama’s end-game.
And I further suspect that he thinks he’ll be appointed Caliph.
Zacktly. baraq thinks he will be rewarded, but he is a fool. The radical muslims are using baraq as a useful idiot.
Events will not play out as he thinks they will.
He made a deal with the devil and the devil will get his due.
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