Posted on 12/27/2014 12:57:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
IRBIL, Iraq — For three years, he worked closely with U.S. forces in Iraq. Now Ammar Younes sits in his frigid tent in a camp in Iraq’s Kurdish region, using a scalpel to gouge pieces of shrapnel out of his mangled legs as his young children look on. A trainer in the Iraqi army, the 34-year-old was wounded when Islamic State extremists placed a bomb under his car in Mosul in June, just a week before the northern city fell to the militants. He was forced to flee his hospital bed, still wearing his medical gown, when the city was overrun.
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Who would ever want to be an American ally again? You might be doing great for a few years, but sooner or later you will be deserted and left high and dry while the fanatical jihadists sweep in.
That may be, but it is their country and they should stay and fight.
Lets see June, December. Who waits 6 months to remove shrapnel from their legs??
If this piece was supposed to induce sympathy from me, FAIL.
Under Clintoon we moved heaven and earth to protect alleged ethnic cleansing in the Balkans by Serbia’s Milosovich (a Christian) who was supposedly leaning on the Muslims (who are and were pains in the ass).
We bombed ancient bridges over the Danube river, and laughed when passenger train drove into the river, killed many innocent people and destroyed a large area.
OK we made the world safe for Islam. Now we have ISIS/ISIL/IS running rampant, beheading Christian children, raping women, committing all kinds of atrocities, and we cannot even seem to stem their sale of stolen oil on the world market (sanctions?? Ha!)
What in the Hell is going on!?
He was an atheist Communist.
“it is dangerous to be an enemy of America. But it is frequently deadly to be a friend to America.” Henry Kissinger.
It makes me sick to my stomach to think of the reward our brave allies have reaped for having trusted the American people, who allowed Obama’s communist-Islamist puppet-masters to unlawfully place him into our White House as a foreign enemy combatant serving as Commander-in-Chief.
I’m trying to use the most technically-correct language I can.
I will never forgive America for doing this to our allies and to our own military. It feels like a knife into my own back.
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