Posted on 06/12/2014 7:00:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why would Obama allow Iraq to be armed when he already armed the other side?
A little late to the party....
Yup! Let the God-forsaken place burn. But I wish we could protect the Christians from the slaughter.
What you suggest requires myriad support personnel on the ground, and then troops on the ground to recon any attacks. And away we go...
If we really wanted to keep Iraq out of radical Islamist hands, then we shouldn’t have elected a radical Muslim as President.
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Yep, even we are now in islamist hands. See my tagline.
Precisely.
+1
Obama just doesn’t care.
I agree completely. However, when our government insists on keeping up some sort of foreign policy charade, it is incumbent upon it to maintain some sort of decency. Like working to keep its citizens there and elsewhere alive. Nothing this Obama Government has ever done indicates that this is a tenet of its foreign policy.
Sorry, we are too late!
If I was a Kurd, I don’t want to see Iraq reconstituted. The Kurds want their independence.
They want to stay out of the fight between the Arabs. There is an old Kurdish proverb: “the only friend of the Kurds are the mountains.”
That is even more true today.
Absolutely not.
The air attacks can be reconned by both Iraqis and UCAVs and the air bases aren’t located in Iraq.
If Saudi Arabia & Kuwait won’t step in why should we?
A federation is the only way to preserve the country. This was seriously discussed in 2005. Only the Kurds supported it. Both the Shia and Sunnis believed they’d eventually be in control. What we see now is a continuation of their fight for control. Hopefully, they’ll both eventually tire of it and settle for federation. But the Sunnis have hardly any oil in their areas. They will be the outliers.
I am with you on that as long as we operate from a safe haven.
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