---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Salyavin,
IMO, ISIS and the Sunnis are one and the same. The so called
militants are the Sunni fighters at night, figuratively speaking, and
during the daylight they become the residents of the towns doing their
ordinary tasks.
Obama is correct in saying that this problem is an Iraqi problem.
They have to let the democratic process take hold in their own
culture and understanding.
And who are the victims? The minority people of Iraq, including the
Christians, who are attempting to live in peace in a troubled land.
In the meantime, the kabal that is funding this mayhem is rejoicing in
the money they're making by selling barrels of oil at very high prices
to Europe, the USA and the rest of the world.
Is this evil or what?
>
On 8/27/2014 11:39 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
>
Yup. I do think the whole cock-up is our fault, from the end of the
Ottaman empire onwards we've connived and meddled in their affairs and
finally in 2003 we set this little ball rolling.
>
That's one way to keep the defeat of the Ottoman Empire simple: "set the
little ball rolling", but I think it's a little more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
>
So I disagree that the Iraqi problem is theirs alone. We trashed their
country and set up a hopeless puppet government that has failed
miserably, there was hardly a thought for the aftermath in Blair's
messianic vision of himself as the Iraqi saviour. When you break
something you should pay for it. It isn't like they weren't warned, it
isn't like this shit always happens...
>
Not sure what your solution to the Middle Eastern problem would have
been, but the idea first was to find out if the Irqi's had WMD - the
only way you're going to find that ou FOR SURE was to go in and look
around. But, the whole idea of invading Iraq was to set up a democratic
and independent Iraq and stabilize the energy supply. You just can't do
that when your foreign policy is isolationism. Following your logic, the
whole of Europe and Britain would be speaking Arabic or Turkish by now.
You either come up with some new solutions or you are doomed.
>
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
This is such an absurd turn of events. Why did the Iraqi army give up
so easily against ISIS? IMO, the Iraqi army was infiltrated with
sympathizers of ISIS. The officers of the army were probably paid off
by ISIS to run away with their subordinates and leave the American
vehicles and equipment to the militants.
Maybe they were just scared?
Maybe the US should put self-destruct devices in their next bunch of
free gifts to the middle east..
It appears that the Iraqi army does not want to fight and are willing
to be subjugated by the militants. In the end, they are willing to
let the Christians and other minorities to be killed as sacrifices to
the militant overlords.
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