Posted on 06/10/2014 7:47:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
All this is on Obama’s head.
He abandoned our blood their and handed Mesopotamia to the Persians
Drat his hide.
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He has many supporters.
It has a lot to do with our refusal to win wars dating back to immediately after WWII.
US-trained security forces? Trained to desert to help their 0’s peeps?
A close relative fought for a year to free Mosul. It was a terrible time. If you were to ask my professional opinion as a pastor, and that’s because I’ve seen grief a lot, I’d say he is showing grief over this. He can’t believe it (shock/denial). He’s extremely angry when discussing it. (Anger). Then he just shakes his head in bitterness. (depression).
I imagine every soldier and family, who lost friends or loved ones, or who had them injured, are experiencing similar grief over the news out of Mosul.
Yep, starting with failure to define and declare war against belligerent nations states instead of dodging with “war on” catch phrases.
It’s the same in Afghanistan, but Iraq was all sewn up till Obama walked away.
I have a bud that had to go reliberate Musa Qala in Afghanistan after NATO walked away.
We went in, took the place with great bloodshed, then held it for 6 years or so, fortified it, built roads and then walked away.
The Taliban came howling out of the hills, grabbed the place said thanks very much for the new fortifications and started raising hell.
Then my bud has to go in and root them out again.
Pretty senseless BS.
I thought we were told that Al Qaeda was “on the run”
RE: I thought we were told that Al Qaeda was “on the run”
Yes they are. They’re running INTO Iraq.
We need energy independence so we can get ourselves out of that god-forsaken part of the world.
It was naive to think things would ever change there, nothing but a bunch of savages.
We learned in Viet Nam how to lose people taking a village, then leave it, then lose people taking it back again, rinse repeat.
Iraq is our ally. Compare this to Syria's Assad, which Obama wants to topple, that has been fighting for years to keep the terrorists from taking over. We do seem to be on the wrong side in a lot of this.
We have no allies in the Middle East, other than Israel....And with Obama, even that is now in question.
Releasing POWs back to countries that were thoroughly defeated wasn’t a problem because they were being released to a nation that had lost the will to fight.
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.
RE: We need energy independence so we can get ourselves out of that god-forsaken part of the world.
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We almost are. All we need is additional fracking approval and NOT TO CLOSE OUR COAL PLANTS.
See here:
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16511
Domestic production satisfies 84% of total U.S. energy demand in 2013
Indeed.
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