Per a military source: "It is more than a little unnerving to see ISIS executing Iraqis with US weapons"
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) June 16, 2014
Jordan. They must be wondering when it is going to be their turn and who will help them. It really does look like they are next.
It should be noted that the true strength and control of ISIS is poorly understood. Apparently they have not stormed the Kurdish part of Mosul and the rest of Mosul is sort-of run by ISIS but also by ‘moderate’ Sunni tribes and a shadowy organization called the Nasshbaqi army composed of former Baathists. It seems that ISIS is bolstered by many Sunni tribes in rebellion but they might not buy into the Shariah wholesale. It’ll be interesting.
Why should anyone be surprised. It was Hillary Clinton that moved American Arms through “Qatar”, including the “Stinger Missile’s” those are the missing arms the CIA was looking for in “Benghazi”
Now Qatar has the 5 terrorists that will disappear like the weapons.
Anyone that thinks Obama/Valerie Jarret are not the problem is an idiot.
“The catalyst for all that has gone wrong are Bush and Blair and the utter stupidity of GW2. Whatever their aims were they obviously never thought through the potential downsides. They will go down in history with utter ignominy.”
Oh. I guess there was nothing the current Prez could do after Bush damaged the ME so badly. Nope. Nothing. He’s completely blameless. Not his fault.
So. Noble poses and empty rhetoric won’t do it alone, eh? For his next trick, maybe Ol’ Jughead should take a walk on the rising waters he promised to subdue.
Obama really isn’t to blame, for once. He stuck to the withdrawal timetable thank God. The peace was the Iraqi government’s to keep and they failed.
Obama set the timetable even when people told him it would lead to war.
Just truth, I don’t think your name means what you think It means., unless god add
Marxist or Progressive in the middle.
You are a unionista right?
Stop lying. He followed the Bush timetable to the letter and it did not lead to war. Maliki’s awful governance did.
No I am not a ‘unionista’.
Under the Obama administration of clowns, not ONE of the long time traditional allies of the U.S. can rely on or trust the U.S. any longer. And that goes for Canada as well.
These terrorists are the same people that Obama supported with rhetoric, arms, and even airstrikes to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and were recently given more American weapons when they tried to overthrow Bashar al-Assad in Syria but have thus far failed in their bid because of Russia’s support for Assad.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi(leader of the ISIS) was in U.S. custody from 2005-2009 when Obama released him to the Iraqis.
Other than the above points, I see no reason whatsoever to think that Obama bears any responsibility for what is happening in Iraq.
Well, a US helicopter was shot down with one of our new generation Stinger missiles a couple of months back. They recovered the serial number and traced it to the CIA. Fortunately nobody was killed as they were able to land the Chinook.
Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan… the list goes on.
Anyplace the US meddles with their military misadventures they make it worse while wasting American lives and resources.
It matters little who the POTUS is, they’re all puppets of the MIC.
north of LAS, you and just truth should get married, as neither one of you has a damn klue
Japan and Germany are financial/industrial super powers. Yes I know, Ice Land did all that.
Intelligent people know the conversation relates to post WW2; it’s obvious from the examples quoted.
Adjust yer meds and try to pay attention, details are important.
Heh, Nof60 will have to make another arbitrary exception for Korea
…and, the US didn’t lose in Viet Nam. They won every battle, as well as preventing the spread of communism in southeast Asia. Which was the intention in the first place.
Is the collapse of the Iraqi army four divisions and sixty thousand soldiers plus probably two hundred thousand “security forces” lost without a fight a preview of Liberal Ontario’s staunch resistance to future jihad?
They won every battle
They defeated the insurgency, but the government they were propping up was parasitic and could not survive on its own…this seems familiar.
preventing the spread of communism in southeast Asia. Which was the intention in the first place.
Did Vietnam actually do this? I think the Indonesian response to their incipient commie insurrection ie kill them all had more to do with it.
America’s entrance into Vietnam was a tragedy and crime against the American people.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement which divided up the Ottoman empire is unraveling before our eyes and the potential of a Caliphate looms. There is more than enough blame to go around on this issue. To begin with, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Wilson for agreeing to the Sykes-Pikot Agreement. This is when the radicalization of the Muslims began.
In hind sight, we should have stayed out of Iraq and Afghanistan and rather turned AL-Queda training camps into glass wherever they were discovered.
We, as in the west, should have kept out of the so called Arab Spring as a dictator of states like Libya can be controlled and will not bother us if show them who is boss, whereas groups like ISIS will work 24/7 to subdue or kill us.
These ISIS groups should be hammered constantly with drone missiles.
As I recall, the British also defeated the commies in Malaysia using small unit special forces by fighting using the same methods as the commie guerrillas. No Hershey Bars and Coco-Cola.
preventing the spread of communism in southeast Asia.
yeah right, just like they’ve prevented the spread of Muslim terrorism in Iraq, Libya… the list goes on. Terrorists are the new communists. Same propaganda, different labels.
Stop drinking Cold War Kool-Aid and see the propaganda for what it is:
http://youtu.be/u4SgEy2khOE
We can lead people to knowledge but we can’t make them think.
America’s entrance into Vietnam was a tragedy and crime against the American people.
You would say that given it also ended communist Russia’s hopes of expanded influence in the area.
Vietnam is completely communist, some people still haven’t grasped that.
The US accomplished nothing but killing a lot of people and contaminating the land. American slash and burn imperialism, all to make Saigon safe for McDonalds. Not a good rerason to waste of American lives.
Watch the video, educate yourself, stop spouting propaganda.
Haha, old communists never die, they just keep on arguing that communism didn’t lose. Ya see, McDonalds is now in Viet Nam…
Just like they’re now backhandedly cheering temporary terrorist victories.
Meanwhile, back in Iraq…
If the enemy of your enemy makes war on your enemy, the only people killed are your enemies.
“America’s entrance into Vietnam was a tragedy and crime against the American people”
It was Democrat JFK that sent troops into Vietnam, and it was LBJ that micro-managed the war into a losing situation.. Nixon ended the war..
No one knows what JFK would have done, but he wasn’t a coward like LBJ.. LBJ was the worst POTUS to have during a war; before Obama..
What is happening in Iraq is the result of Obama’s obscene indifference, he should not be called an American. He has no decency!
“Obama Spring”
It’s on his watch, it’s in him like, the dose.
The One’s abject inability to be a leader, to make decisions, etc. etc. are the immediate cause of this.
On a longer scale, this is muslim civil war.
Muslims have been “radical” for 1400 years. Time to put a stop to it.
“the only people killed are your enemies”
They’re burning churches and slaughtering Christians.
Sarah was right. Get out of there and let Allah sort it out.
Yeah the domino theory was bogus as the subsequent brief war Vietnam VS PRC…..however it did contain and slow the expansion of communism which relied upon expansion for whatever success….in short they ran outa other folks money.
The loss was in the US not Saigon….yeah we won Tet….
It was like if the Allies had withdrawn from Europe because of the Battle of the Bulge….
And apparently Obama is too stupid to be able to take a look at how things are progressing or does he simply follow words on a page? Anybody with half a brain (which leaves Obama out of the equation) would know that you adjust timeframes and strategies on realities on the ground at the time. You are blowing smoke.
Nonsense. Vietnam has a very solid capitalist bent going on. U.S. action in Vietnam did stop the spread of communism in the area. Just like Pinochet did in Chile. And the Chilean people are much better off as a result.
…in short they ran outa other folks money.
Exactly, eventually the communist’s thievery dried up their source of wealth. People don’t like it when their wealth is taken by force, they stop producing.
And that’s exactly how we’ll have victory over the current bunch of thieves and murderers. Kill them and outspend them. It’ll take awhile and the usual weak kneed types will protest, but it’ll get done.
800 rout 30,000…….that don’t pass my smell test.
The Isreali airforce of 1956 would have obliterated them in 5 minutes…
Allowing for current incompetence….it shoulda only taken an hour, two waves by half their assets to effect the same result.