The Sunni fighters are battle hardened veterans. The Shi’ite hastily formed militias are mostly novices and are poorly led. The coming battle for Baghdad will resemble the fall of Saigon. Its time to have an orderly and complete evacuation of the Baghdad embassy and put this whole sorry affair behind us.
Do you think the Iraqi Army will just melt away?
From the Sunni areas around the airport on the West of Baghdad, the Sunnis could pop artillery into heavily Shia Sadr City, just we used to.
Only instead of laser-guided precision munitions, they are more likely to lay down a wide spread of mustard gas and nerve agent, which they recently liberated from al Muthanna.
There is no way the Shia (including Iran) could sit back and leave the holy sites of Karbala (60 miles South of town) to Sunni fundamentalists - it is where the Imam Mahdi, the Shia messiah, is supposed to be. They would have to take at least a few hundred thousand casualties first.
Get your popcorn stockages levelled up now - once the main battle is engaged, you won’t want to have to be making grocery runs.
Supposedly trained by the US in Jordan and armed by soetoro through Turkey (Benghazi anyone?).
I don't know what the call is but this is something we will not be leaving behind us, unlike Vietnam.
Iranian troops know how to fight, they will be leading the Shiite defense. ISIS may be battle hardened but they are not elite special forces, basically a band of desert cutthroats, even if experienced ones. Shiite will fight like Stalingrad, and will overwhelm with numbers of green recruits WWII Stalingrad style.
It is 10 days past time to evacuate the embassy.
How many days of food and water for 5000 people is stored at the embassy?
“Its time to have an orderly and complete evacuation of the Baghdad embassy and put this whole sorry affair behind us.”
Makes one wonder if Obozo, our Sunni potus, is planning to sacrifice all of the democrats in our Baghdad Embassy to justify some radical action on his behalf.
Left wing radicals, with degrees from the Ivy League, George Washington University and George Town, UC Berkley and liberals from Chicago have controlled our state department and embassies since WWII.
Conservatives in that Embassy are probably limited to our Marine Guards for the Embassy.
Obama voters in that Embassy need to remember how our consulate in Lybia were left alone. If they want their families and them to be safe, it is time to abandon the sinking ship, our Embassy in Baghdad.