Posted on 10/28/2019 7:25:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
If I had to distill American strategic defeat and loss of purpose in the Middle East into a single image, it would be the Iraqi-Jordanian border post in June 2014. As I wrote in The [Un]documented Mark Steyn:
Eleven years ago, a few weeks after the fall of Saddam, on little more than a whim, I rented a beat-up Nissan and, without telling the car-hire bloke, drove from Amman through the eastern Jordanian desert, across the Iraqi border, and into the Sunni Triangle. I could not easily make the same journey today, but for a brief period in the spring of 2003 we were 'the strong horse' and even a dainty little media gelding such as myself was accorded a measure of respect by the natives. The frontier is a line in the sand drawn by a British colonial civil servant and on either side it's empty country. From the Trebil border post, you have to drive through ninety miles of nothing to get to Iraq's westernmost town, Rutba - in saner times an old refueling stop for Imperial Airways flights from Britain to India. Fewer of Her Majesty's subjects swing by these days. I had a bite to eat at a café whose patron had a trilby pushed back on his head Sinatra-style and was very pleased to see me. (Rutba was the first stop on a motoring tour that took me through Ramadi and Fallujah and up to Tikrit and various other towns.)
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obozo.... ugh.
Baghdadi Bagged!
Did this pos have any toes left, to tag?
Oh noes!! The “austere Islamic scholar” has went to meet Allah for his 62 virgins, only to discover it was all a lie.
His feet shouldn have been eaten. By a dog.
He should have been put in a cage and burned like he did to so many.
BBC said very little about this but they did talk about the Victim Katie Hill ,LOL
O.M.G.
Steyn at his best.
Funny how wrong the Left is, even SNL the new anti-Trump political commentary show is always wrong.
Great commentary, thanks for posting it.
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