Posted on 06/11/2014 3:38:07 PM PDT by kristinn
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.
The State Department also warned U.S. citizens against traveling to Iraq, following several days of bloody clashes between insurgents with the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi military forces. ISIL has taken control of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and aims to create an Islamic state across the Iraq-Syria border.
The U.S. official told TheBlaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are “preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees.”
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Well, all that American blood, toil, tears, and sweat certainly civilized the Iraqis, didn’t it!
Jeffersonian democracy is “top down”?
Forcing it with US might, is.
Two different concepts and two different paragraphs. :-)
Well, well, well. If anyone is taken hostage will we leave them behind or attempt to trade Ted Cruz for them? As you know, we NEVER leave anyone behind.
My recollection is that the Iraqi people did their own nation building, wrote their own constitution, and the US mostly just provided the muscle to keep the country stable as the new institutions grew. The people themselves braved the death threats to go out and vote, etc. It was a hopeful experiment, not at all nation building or social engineering as that term is understood. Obama’s pull-out in 2011 was abrupt, without consulting with the Iraqi government, which wanted some residual presence, and without any regard for the region’s stability, which Obama soon after began destroying with his insane support for the MB in Egypt, etc.
The Middle East was screwed up long before the League of Nations got ahold of it, which is why the Ottoman Empire was so easy to disassemble in the first place. It had a final collapse coming long before 1789, when Napoleon easily defeated their once-invincible hordes in Egypt. It wasn’t just gunpowder. The Ottomans had that in 1513 when they defeated the Mamluks. Naturally, any solution that anyone came up with was doomed to become FUBAR. The real problem in the Middle East is the f@#$#@ing Islamic fanaticism that continues to infest it.
I said from the very beginning that we can’t win this ‘war’ because we won’t fight to win. We haven’t fought a war to win since WWII. It was the same in Viet Nam. We sacrificed lives then quit, cut off funding and Saigon fell. It will happen again in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never learn.
All that is missing is several aircraft carriers off the coast like Vietnam. bush had the war won, Obama and his ROEs lost it for us.
Wait until they take it, Taganrog make it into a pile of rubble. Kill two birds with one stone.
Or, a bunch of ex military types.
So sad, so outrageous. All that blood and treasure.
Because...he is, himself, a Sunni.
The last vestige, the hope that their loved one did not die or suffer without a purpose is now gone.
So many uninformed and worried posters. I don’t know where to start. Here’s something to think about.
-The Iraqi military has not fought so far because they are Sunni soldiers deployed in Sunni areas, facing a Sunni militant group. Their government is a pluralistic one in which they are not the majority. So they desert to join the militants -or flee. To some of them they believe they have higher standing in ISIS than in the Iraqi government.
-When the militants near Baghdad they will begin to encounter large groups of Shia which live south and east of Baghdad. The Shia will fight to protect the government they dominate and to prevent persecution by the Sunni.
So yes, this is a civil war with the Sunnis as the aggressor -just like the insurgency we encountered when there. The Shia and Kurds will fight the Sunni militants.
Many Sunnis will stand this out. They understand that to join the militants will place them in a conflict of annihilation from which their families will receive no benefit.
“I keep hoping one strong military man will step forward and put a stop to this.”
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The valiant and heavily wounded John Kerry -— who served in Vietnam in case you didn’t know.
“I’m sure glad the CIA and NSA were all over this genuine threat....”
They’ve known about this for many months and have been tracking it.
What is the basis of your presumption that the Administration and/or the media oppose ISSI? Did Clinton and Albright oppose the Albanian Kosovars when they attacked Kosovo Slavics and Serbians? If you recall the democrats joined with the rebels to break up Serbia and participated in divvying up the spoils -such as the Trebca mines.
Are you not familiar with the Angolan and Nigerian conflicts?
This is not about politics. It is about fungible assets and the collusion of criminal activities to take those assets from their current owners.
This is the Blood For Oil war.
Hope every American gets out safely.
These people are ingrates. They don’t deserve one American life or limb. We knew that (or should have known that) going in. Same thing in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kuwait etc.
Common denominator ?
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