A sad article linked below. "Even the dead are suffering in Iraq." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/10/us-iraq-security-idUSKBN0EL1H520140610 My nephew fought in this screwed up war. Came back deaf in one ear and a bum leg from his wounds. At least he came back. All for nothing. What's left of the Iraqi army is caving about as fast as the ARVN did in Nam. They just don't have it. We didn't have a plan to win then, didn't have a plan to win in Iraq, don't have a plan to win in Afghanistan. Six years into Obama's rule and all he and his gang can do is blame the Bush administration,(who deserve plenty of blame),shrug their shoulders and walk away. We are a war weary nation that now know thousands of our men and women have died for nothing. We also know that we have a criminally corrupt congress couldn't care less, and a president so completely detached from reality he actually thinks he's doing a bang up job, and a few hundred fat katz laughing all the way to the bank. I hope last nights election results were for the right reason and send the right message. That message being a anti-incumbent tidal wave is coming in November. Hopefully the dem party will take part in the purge. If they don't, we're all fucked.
what dilemma is that? i could give a shit about syria, but ISIS is directly responsible for American deaths. I would never for any reason help those rats, in fact i would bomb them everywhere they are in the world. in my opinion, helping them (even indirectly) is a traitorous act. ps. that comment about giving assad weapons was sort of a joke. I mean I'm not opposed to it, you know "the enemy of my enemy.." and all that.
The dilemma would be: helping Assad to defeat ISIL, if only temporarily, may help Iran, another of our enemies.
Iraq army capitulates to Isis militants in four cities Iraqi officials told the Guardian that two divisions of Iraqi soldiers â roughly 30,000 men â simply turned and ran in the face of the assault by an insurgent force of just 800 fighters. Senior government officials in Baghdad were equally shocked, accusing the army of betrayal and claiming the sacking of the city was a strategic disaster that would imperil Iraq's borders. So many soldiers had fled Mosul that the price of firearms plummeted as troops flooded the market with their service weapons, said Shirzad, a taxi driver at the border of Iraqi Kurdistan, who had been ferrying Iraqi army deserters from the checkpoint towards Kirkuk. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states Wow 800 men can cause 30,000 to run in fear.
to my knowledge, iran is not actually engaging isis. they 'fight' by proxy using their shiite allies, hezbollah. Helping iran by accident is not a big deal to me, maybe it would even help build some goodwill between us/israel and iran/russia. Taking the other side (which we are at war with) out of spite, or to help our prez save face is retarded though.
this is pathetic if true, the US even trained these guys. The Kurds are another option to deal with ISIS, they fight with them now in the north of both iraq and syria. But backing anyone in the ME seems like it always leads to future problems. All I know is any of our war efforts should be focused on wiping the sunni extremists like isis and al nusra, off the earth, they are our real enemy in the world.
I'm a Vietnam vet. I think all of us who served from Vietnam to today are/were CHUMPS! In WWI(?) and WWII, Americans fought to save America. Since then, we've all just been pawns for greaseball politicos and the military industrial complex.