Posted on 05/28/2016 7:44:47 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
President Barack Obama has made such a mess in the Middle East, that radical Muslims who were once at each other's throat are now forced to unite in order to fight off ISIS.
Only a few years ago, the Taliban and the Iranian regime were mortal enemies. They are both run by radical Muslims, but the difference between them is that the Taliban is Sunni where Iran is Shiite. This made them natural enemies struggling with each other for regional hegemony. Tehran even went so far as to support the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan: the group that was fighting against the Taliban back in 2001.
In other words, the two have never been friends. And that's a significant understatement.
All that has changed with the rise of ISIS, however:
Tehran is going even further, and enlisting elements of the Taliban to slow the Islamic State’s expansion inside Afghanistan and prevent militants from the group — which espouses a violently anti-Shiite ideology — from crossing into Iran.
“The Iranians are already trying to secure their immediate borders towards Afghanistan against ISIS penetration by working together with various groups along their own borders to create a buffer zone,” the European Union’s special representative to Afghanistan, Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin, said in a recent interview. “They are already working on this.”
The reason that Iran and the Taliban are joining forces is the rise of ISIS in Afghanistan. According to U.S. officials there are now, at a bare minimum, 3.000 ISIS jihadists active in that country.
Yeah, that's the same country President Obama wanted to abandon because the war was supposedly won: over and done with. Afghanistan could take care of itself! Peace in our time!
Well, not so much. The reduced military presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan actually created a power vacuum...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Here’s hoping they all wipe each other out. Alahu Akbarred.
If we are lucky, the violent elements of Boko Haram, ISIS and Al-Shabab will die against the existing Taliban/Iran/Saudis and essentially burn out a whole generation of Muslims against Islamic fundamentalism.
He just sits back and watches everything fall apart around the world.
Does this make the Iranians our friends? The Taliban.
Anyone could have predicted this. Not specifically, but simply the historically unavoidable disaster that awaits any foreign power foolish enough to get embroiled in Mideast affairs. You’d think that this lesson would be learned but apparently every generation breeds new arrogant pols who think they can do better.
A clever president would figure out how to exploit that to our advantage. Obama, however, will just continue to be Obama.
It’s hard to determine the lesser of two evils.
Piss be upon all of them.
The mystery is, there are 50,000 people left in Fallujah.
ISIS use 50,000 civilians as ‘human shields’ as Iraqi forces blitz Fallujah
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-use-50000-civilians-human-8073056
That whole region of the world is one large hellhole... In the old days people felt if we left the Russians would move in... would that really be worse?
Time to rethink is one...
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