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2015-03-28 Iraq

Iranians suffer embarrassing defeat in Iraq

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-28 10:50|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Wait a minute. Am I pleased or frightened?

Posted by Matt 2015-03-28 11:36|| 2015-03-28 11:36|| Front Page Top

Natural Selection n.noun,
1.The process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive longer and transmit more of their genetic characteristics to succeeding generations than do those that are less well adapted.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-28 11:44|| 2015-03-28 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 One side likes to murder people in horrible ways and post the pertinent videos to YouTube. The other doesn't post to YouTube but wants to nuke me. You know, Matt, it's a really hard question.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-28 11:45|| 2015-03-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Are these the "elite" Iranian Revolutionary Guards?
That seems to mean something else in the Middle East.

Posted by tu3031 2015-03-28 11:55|| 2015-03-28 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 elite = politically loyal to whatever regime

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-28 12:37|| 2015-03-28 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 "Another of Obumble's great plans falling into ruin" I think his "great plan" is doing just fine. This is a sideshow. Do not read this as any kind of endorsement of the Obamagenda. Do not talk about the Obamagenda.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-28 14:44|| 2015-03-28 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Or as Joe said elsewhere today "As Globalist Amerika PCorrectly self-retreats around the World..."

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-28 14:46|| 2015-03-28 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 As I was saying elsewhere, would it be wrong to hope for another Battle of the Somme (Tigris version)?

Posted by Glenmore 2015-03-28 15:58|| 2015-03-28 15:58|| Front Page Top

#9 ...or Verdun?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-28 17:10|| 2015-03-28 17:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Hardly a defeat.

They have got the Americans to do the hard part and will reap the rewards, without the costs.

Posted by phil_b 2015-03-28 17:40|| 2015-03-28 17:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Defeat? Not exactly. More like a setback.

Iran is learning almost the same lesson with Iraqi Shiite militias that the US learned (repeatedly) with Iraqi Army forces: Iraqi military leadership sucks. And if you're not prepared to get down into the weeds, spend time and money and often do some ass kicking, you're going to end up with yet another traditional Arab warrior-mob.

IMNSHO, this reads like another AyPee let's-defend-the-administration-at-home piece.

I can see the WH assuring the mullahs that it was for "public consumption."

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-28 18:23|| 2015-03-28 18:23|| Front Page Top

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