Posted on 10/19/2017 1:54:29 PM PDT by TBP
Well, we’ve done it. We’ve given Kirkuk to the Iranians.
Kirkuk. The Heart of Kurdistan. It’s the Jerusalem of the Kurds, our only trusted and loyal allies in Iraq. It’s also the last piece of terrain needed by Tehran to complete its overland, unimpeded access to the shores of the Mediterranean and to its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
And it’s precisely where President Trump’s new hard line on Iran, barely 72 hours old, was put to the test and failed.
Actually, it didn’t fail. Our State Department failed it. Rather than act to dissuade or disrupt this past weekend’s bold and open advance on Kirkuk by a significant collection of Iranian-controlled combat power, we demurely averted our eyes and said we weren’t taking sides. But we didn’t even do that. We stayed out and let the Iranians in. By remaining passive our State Department wittingly accepted the foreseeable end state — the immediate annexation of half of Iraq’s Kurdish Region by proxy forces loyal to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s Corps (IRGC), an organization President Trump three days earlier designated a terror organization.
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When is the United States going to stand by an ally?
The Kurds aren’t completely innocent, they’ve been disarming Yezidi and Assyrian militias and essentially want to steal their villages from them.
It’s not our business to start redrawing boundaries in a land dispute.
An ally? They are a neighborhood in the nation of Iraq. Unless we are gonna now carve up Iraq into nations and start a whole new war.
This is the result of W’s dim bulb neocon crap. He had to remove Saddam who had no involvement in 9/11. So who exactly did they think might take over in a country that is 60% Shia?
Idiots. It’s time to walk away, be energy independent, and not let any of them into the country. Whether the Kurds have a nation isn’t worth an American life or dollar.
Meh, I’m good.
As long as the killing continues.
The US interest:
Making sure they all have lots of ammo.
To BUY.
Do you ever tire of peddling this neo-liberal interventionist pap?
We cannot allow Iranian domination. They’re the enemy. They’re interested in killing and dominating us.
We need to get arms to the Kurds directly and in massive quantities.
The borders there are unrealistic and artificial anyway. They deliberately divided national groups such as the Kurds. It was the work of the great progressive hero Woodrow Wilson and his buddy Colonel House.
The Kurdish forces have fought on our side since this thing began. They provide safe harbor to Christians and Yazidis and others. And they are the one fighting force capable of holding the Murdering Mullahs at bay.
Remember, we just declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization (and rightly so.) Why not support the one group that is pro-Western (for the most part) and harbors those who are being persecuted by the jihadists?
I’m against most interventions. We may need to be involved, at lest as a supplier, here.
They’ve been harboring the Yazidis, Christians, Assyrians, and others from the militant jihadists who want to kill or enslave them.
We should bomb all Iranian forces outside Iran. Let the Kurds take pics and send them home to their families.
That’s one way to do it.
Sometimes there’s just no helping some people.
Air power alone does not win wars.
How much of our money/lives should we spend on a civil war on the other side of the world?
“We cannot allow Iranian domination. They’re the enemy. They’re interested in killing and dominating us.
We need to get arms to the Kurds directly and in massive quantities.”
Oh, yeah BTT. We’ll be back in there count on it. Sunni extremists defeated. Next up Iranian-Shia extremists.
We will ally with Sunni moderates and the Kurds and kick Iran out of Iraq. Iraqi Shia don’t particularly like the Iranians. They’re considered bossy pricks. So they will lose.
It’s all about force ppl. Old school over there. You bring the force, you attain honor and authority.
Rule or be ruled. Americans simply do not understand these rules.
“How much of our money/lives should we spend on a civil war on the other side of the world?”
Perhaps this subject is too much for you?
Are you afraid? Scared of negative television reporting?
Maybe you should drink a glass of milk and go to bed.
The hell are you talking about? I don’t wanna waste more billions on the shiitehole called Iraq so I’m “afraid of negative reportering”?
You’re missing Matlock BTW.
After conveniently disarming their own militias and leaving them to the wolves if they refused and resist being assimilated.
The Kurds participated in the Assyrian Genocide which occurred simultaneously with the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrians haven’t forgotten that.
They aren’t doing this for purely altruistic motives.
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