What do they think this is, US Marines fleeing an embassy and leaving weapons behind?
Juxtaposed against the news ut of Ramadi, we are so completely screwed. There's no leadership on the horizon strong enough to take this tanned pencil off his national soap box of uselessness. WTF are we supposed to do now? We just watch while our tanks, our APCs and our Humvees are re-purposed for evil. And no one speaks out in DC to call out the utter folly of this president.
He is now setting on an initiative to degrade our military even further with climate change BS and where the F are our republicans? Has there been a better time to point out the idiocy of this guy and his whole party. Nope. I can't think of more demoralizing scene than what's coming out of Iraq this week. It's worse than seeing that French guy crying as the Nazis did their victory parade through Paris in 1940.
Hussein Obama: “Success!”
The Iraqi’s were way-over-estimated, someone should have know this was going to be a mismatch fight.
The coalition should seek a new leader. I heard on FOXNews there are 60 coalition members, do they get a vote or are they all stuck in Iraq?
LOOOKS like we will have to have remotely controlled self destruct devices implanted in our foreign aid weaponry.
Actually might be a great idea, like .... Trojan horses.
This pizzes me off to no end. Utter incompetence by these fools in the Bammy Administration.
You mean to tell me we can watch the fireworks and movements by sat. and drone, but can’t take out a depot BEFORE the enemy takes control?
I wouldn’t be surprised if some in the Iraqi “Army” are found to be in collusion with ISIS, what with all the equipment being left.
I think this was the plan all along.
Arm ISIS but do not help the Kurds defend themselves. The picture is becoming very clear.
I wish they would give weaponry to the Iraqi Kurds instead. I bet they wouldn’t leave them for ISIS. In fact, the Kurds would probably kick ISIS out of Ramadi.
Am I looking at his ISIS problem correctly?
The ISIS problem represents a continuation of the Sunni-Shiite problem in Iraq, etc. It represents an unsolvable situation in its present form. We are not going to make them like each other, and we will only waste our own nation if we try. I put some blame on Bremmer for dismissing the Iraqi Army instead of bringing them into our fold as a power center. Bremmer was too busy handing out $million dollar bricks of our tax dollars to cronies.
Saddam gave preference to the Sunni minority. Shiites were the majority while the Sunnis were a dominant minority. The Shiites to a large extent welcomed their rise to power as a result of our invasion. The Sunnis resented it.
The Sunnis have historically been more of a problem with radical Islam than the Shiites. The Sunnis were a major force in Iraq that used the IEDs. The Saudis attacked us on 9-11 while being given special treatment and access to our skies, while we Americans were grounded after 9-11. So I don’t understand why we favor the Sunnis over Shiites and Iran. Before one dollar or one drop of American blood is spent in Iraq or Syria I favor letting the Iranians deal with them.
Maybe the only real solution in Iraq is dividing the nation so that the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis have their own turf.
More tens of billion of dollars, foreign aid, given to pieceful religion groups. We USAians are so lost in the deception that USGov is trying to _fix_ something with all of this.
All of this equipment and money is going to enemies of us, our country and our way of live.
I believe this activity is not an accident. Large segments of USGov are doing this deliberately. I no longer belive they’re trying to enable infighting between these groups, it is more than that. It is generalized destabilizing and it has enabled more destabilization in MEast. Egypt figured it out. Current USGov is the problem.
Once we clearly see that a Caliphate _has_ formed and runs most of MEast, nay sayers may get it.