Iraq? They wouldn’t give a ####. Must be getting pressure from the west to hold off a few days.
Either that or this article is satire “atrocities”
I don’t think i’ve read that word once when describing the slaughter of Christians.
Are they kidding?
“Must be getting pressure from the west to hold off a few days.”
It is most definitely Western pressure.
You are right, the Iraqi’s would not care one whit.
“Iraq? They wouldn’t give a ####. Must be getting pressure from the west to hold off a few days.”
They needed a pause. They have to revise their tactics, and staff back up.
They were making great progress, by pushing hard with a few elite units - but some of them have suffered heavy casualties in the process. Progress also ground to a crawl when they reached the dense warren of streets and alleys of this ancient major city’s “old town”. They need an excuse to pull their troops back from the meatgrinder, and find another way to starve or smoke out ISIS from Old Town.
They will probably give them a chance to escape, and might end up just sending in lots of the Shi’ite militiamen to root them out at close range.
Iraq will be better off after the war with stronger security forces and weaker militias.
The 9th Division has closed in to the NW edge of Mosul, so they could open a new front, and spend some time clearing more of the modern city, besieging the Old Town for a while.