Not we. If the Iraqis won’t fight for their freedom, they deserve to lose it.
So many uninformed and worried posters. I don’t know where to start. Here’s something to think about.
-The Iraqi military has not fought so far because they are Sunni soldiers deployed in Sunni areas, facing a Sunni militant group. Their government is a pluralistic one in which they are not the majority. So they desert to join the militants -or flee. To some of them they believe they have higher standing in ISIS than in the Iraqi government.
-When the militants near Baghdad they will begin to encounter large groups of Shia which live south and east of Baghdad. The Shia will fight to protect the government they dominate and to prevent persecution by the Sunni.
So yes, this is a civil war with the Sunnis as the aggressor -just like the insurgency we encountered when there. The Shia and Kurds will fight the Sunni militants.
Many Sunnis will stand this out. They understand that to join the militants will place them in a conflict of annihilation from which their families will receive no benefit.
No..wrong!
We set them up..we went, liberated them from Sadaam, got them going and then JUST F..NNG SPLIT!
wE HAD TO STAY IN GERMANY AND JAPAN FOR YEARS!
“they deserve to lose it...” You don’t get it, do you????
IT IS IN OUR security interests to have kept one western ally and not give it up to the “cALIPHATE”!