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Iraq |
Analysis: ISIS, allies reviving 'Baghdad belts' battle plan |
2014-06-15 |
![]() Today, the Iraqis have no US forces on the ground to support them, US air power is absent, the Awakening is scattered and in disarray, and the Iraqi military has been humiliated while surrendering or retreating during the jihadists' campaign from Mosul to the outskirts of Baghdad. The US government has indicated that it will not deploy US soldiers in Iraq, either on the ground or at airbases to conduct air operations. ISIS is advancing boldly in the looming security vacuum left by the collapse of the Iraqi security forces and the West's refusal to recommit forces to stabilize Iraq. This has rendered the country vulnerable to further incursions by al Qaeda-linked jihadists as well as intervention by interested neighbors such as Iran. Overt Iranian intervention in Iraq would likely lead any Sunnis still loyal to the government to side with ISIS and its allies, and would ensure that Iraq would slide even closer to a full-blown civil war, and risk a wider war throughout the Middle East. |
Posted by:Squinty |
#1 "No US forces on the ground to support them, , US airpower is absent" > AND THEY WON'T-N-NEVAR!-WILL IFF THE GLOBALISTS HAVE THEIR WAY. Cold War US Allies will be screaming like hell for US help while wondering why USDOD Milfors were deployed just offshore or nearby just to watch them get conquered. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-06-15 22:50 |