Lose-lose situation. If the Shiites lose, Iraq is a terrorist state. If they win, Iraq becomes a client state of a terrorist state.
And, no doubt, soon the Saudis as the largest Sunni power in the region will be forced to step in on the side of ISIS to counterbalance the expanded Shiite role in this conflict. And that’ll shortly thereafter pit the Gulf kingdoms and ISIS against the Shiite power structure, with “Iraq” as the battleground.
Oh well, at least it’ll be interesting to see the borders redrawn in a region that people actually care about. It’ll be the first that I’m aware of since the breakup of those various Eastern European countries, and China taking over Tibet.
Bump
An Islamic civil war? Need more popcorn.
Vallerie Jarrett serves her Iranian overlords so well.
President butthead Obama destroyed any chance the Iraqi’s ever had of freedom from terrorism. So he’s now wasted all the blood and treasure we spent trying to save them. How in the world do people like Obama sleep at night?
Excellent. Let them fight each other.
All of a sudden, I WANT to see Iran conduct a nuclear test, on Mosul.
“With Republicans still in control of Congress, the October 2006 article named two prominent Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and found that neither could answer basic questions on the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.18 Given the notoriety of the article, Stein’s follow-up interview in December 2006 with the incoming Democratic Chairman of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence (and senior member of the Armed Services Committee), Congressman Silvestre Reyes, proved equally distressing when it turned out that the Democrats’ chosen leader believed al-Qaeda to be a predominantly Shia organization.”
Much more historical/educational material…here…(for any FReepers/lurkers interested)
http://www.aina.org/reports/iwesaj.pdf
“On the return of the Caliphate, 74 percent of Pakistanis, 71 percent of Moroccans and 67 percent of Egyptians agree with al-Qaeda.36 Even Indonesia, at 49 percent, still claims a powerful plurality in favor of a caliphate.37 Because Islamic law matters to Muslims, in the WOT, it should also matter to us.”
(link above)
"Petrodollar refers to either a United States dollar earned by a country through the sale of its petroleum (oil) to another country,[1] or the system by which the United States props up the relative value of its currency on the world market by requiring that oil producing nations trade their product on the world market exclusively in dollars.
I will leave the reader with this question
What would be the value of the dollar if oil producers did not insist oil was purchased with US dollars?
Can you imagine if the Methodists and Baptists started a civil war like this?
They are savages. We should simply build a wall around them and let them all kill each other. Once a year we could open it up and let those who are sick of it just leave.
Lemme get this straight, 1500 Iranians are helping retake Kirkuk while also helping to defend Baghdad, Najaf and Al Kut?
Lol.
The Karbala and Najaf Shia aren’t particularly fond of the Iranians. They still remember the mess the Mahdi made of their cities 10 years ago.