How many times have DemocRat Presidents messed up things royally in the Middle East?
History is a tough taskmaster.. some never get it.
You think Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a smart way to spend $1 trillion and 4500 american lives?
and remember, the $1 trillion was borrowed from China. We don’t have money to spend, we have debt to finance.
Looks like Ahmamurderijad is going to get his wish for world chaos so that his 1313th Imam can arise from Hell.
If Obama were serious about stopping the ISIL offensive he would be forcing Saudi Arabia to stop its funding of the “Islamists”. Instead he is sending more young brave Americans to die in a quagmire. Time for an orderly and safe evacuation of the American embassy and put this whole sorry chapter behind us. No Americans should be captured or detained. The coming battle for Baghdad between hardened Sunni veteran fighters and the mostly novice Shi’ite militias and their equally untested Iranian “volunteers” won’t be pretty.
Ireland has had its share of fighting between Protestant and Catholic, as had Germany in earlier times. From 'The History Guide':
"The Thirty Years' War began in Bohemia, an area in which Germans and Czechs, and Lutherans, Calvinists and Catholics lived in relative peace. The peace was shattered when Ferdinand II (1578-1637) became the king of Bohemia in 1617. Ferdinand was a zealous Catholic and the Bohemian Protestants feared he would recatholicize Bohemia. In May 1618, the imperial governors were thrown from the windows of Prague Castle. Ferdinand was deposed and the crown was offered to Frederick V (1596-1632, also known as the Winter King) of the Palatinate. This act extended the war from Bohemia to the Holy Roman Empire itself. The Protestant Union under Frederick now faced the Catholic League behind Ferdinand, who was now emperor. The Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years' War ended at the battle of the White Mountain in November 1620. With Bohemia in ruins, Ferdinand used the Jesuits to recatholicize the territory. The Czech nobility lost everything, the economy lay in ruins and half the population had been killed by war or plague."
Why did Obama leave large caches of our weapons behind when he withdrew our soldiers from Iraq?
It seems like an important question, since ISIS’s seizure of those weapons has made it easier for them to conquer their way through northern Iraq on their way to Baghdad, killing Iraqi soldiers, whom we’re supposed to be supporting.
When we left Vietnam, we did so under duress, with American personnel clinging to helicopters. So there was no chance for an orderly withdrawal of our weapons then, as there was in Iraq.
The North Vietnamese subsequently used our abandoned weapons to massacre their former American-supported enemies in South Vietnam. Does anyone doubt ISIS will do the same to their American-supported Shiite enemies in Iraq when they achieve their inevitable victory using our abandoned weapons?
Peace talks?
There will be no peace talks until the capture of Sunni territory is complete. The talks then will be concerned with determining precise boundaries between the ISSL, Shia land and Old Syria.
Neither Iraq nor Syria posesses the ability to assault and capture back the lost territory. The assets captured in Iraq assure the ISSL will prevail in Syria. The Iraqi Shia lack the will to go on offense.