So let me get this right. We support the Iraq government in the fight against ISIS. We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like. We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him. We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS. So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose, but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win. If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less, and all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out. I think I’ve got it.
Perhaps it's time for the US to rethink its alliances?
RE: Perhaps it’s time for the US to rethink its alliances?
Several things are clear to me:
1) Kurdistan is out friend. They are willing to fight and protect their region.
2) They need to be independent and stable. Therefore, we must help them achieve that.
3) We need to protect the Christians and peaceful minorities like the Yazidis in Iraq.
The rest are complex and need rethinking.
and oh yeah one more thing — I don’t care whether it helps Iran or Syria or not, ISIS needs to be wiped out off the face of the earth.
The sooner, the better.