Article

2014-06-12 Iraq

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2014-06-12 10:31|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1 Oil prices will go through the roof.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-06-12 14:41|| 2014-06-12 14:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama talked today about possibly providing equipment and assistance. The Iraqis have abandoned what we gave them. We provided plenty of assistance during the nation building effort before we left.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-12 15:07|| 2014-06-12 15:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Maliki was playing footsie with Iran. Looks like his Sunni Arab neighbors objected.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-12 15:31|| 2014-06-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

#4 To equalize the Karma it is required that a Republican Congress cut off all aid to a corrupt and dying Iraqi regime. I can see the V-22s on the roof now.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-12 15:40|| 2014-06-12 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The target rich environment would be tempting--just saying.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-12 15:43|| 2014-06-12 15:43|| Front Page Top

#6 60 vehicles? So 500 jihadi routed a so-called army of "900,000" and a city of 200,000? That's some fierce mofo's.

Posted by KBK 2014-06-12 18:19|| 2014-06-12 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 It seems a proxy war Saudi Arabia Versus Iran.

Which side should Mr Obama support?

Posted by Slinelet Pelosi7787 2014-06-12 18:29|| 2014-06-12 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe so - from Belmont Club:

The Tweets tell of a monumental collapse. Jesus. 30,000 men simply turned and ran in the face of the assault by an insurgent force of just 800 fighters Surreal scenes in #Mosul, #Iraq as US trained troops leave behind their uniforms and flee from #ISIS to #Kurdistan.

Posted by KBK 2014-06-12 18:36|| 2014-06-12 18:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, for Belmont Club, read the whole thing: The Day Of Reckoning

Theres nothing in place available to stop al-Qaeda. The forces that might have are locked up in the Southwest Asia, sustained at the mercy of Russia and Pakistan. Obama has been faked out; the AQ have gone around him for a layup to the basket. He may lose Iraq and its border with Syria before the year ends. Afghanistans fall will follow almost immediately thereafter, behind the last American troops, whose safe exit from the landlocked country is now by no means guaranteed. The Russians lost more than 500 men going out in 1989 and they only had to cross a land border a short distance away.

The only way things could be worse is for US troops in Afghanistan find themselves trapped, denied passage by Pakistan or Russia. Of course that could never happen because the press never considers the possibility and it considers Obama too respected for that to occur.

When you add in the Eastern European crisis and the growing expansion of China to the Middle Eastern collapse, it is not hard to see the obvious. Unless a miracle saves Obama, the nation will be facing a global and existential security crisis within a short time. America will face a supercharged Islamic terrorism with thousands of recruits in the West available as a 5th Column, supplied with vast amounts of money and in potential possession of most of the worlds oil. For how long until Saudi Arabias Islamic children eat its parents?

And that's just the beginning of a righteous rant that ends with Hillary (!). RTWT.

Posted by KBK 2014-06-12 20:06|| 2014-06-12 20:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Iraq had a trained force of something like 800,000? They have been routed by 800? The militants do not have unrealistic ROEs to slow them down it seems.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-12 21:18|| 2014-06-12 21:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I have reason to question the 800 figure. In other news sources a former US general mentioned how ISIL is using "conventional" military tactics and attacking Iraqi Army positions in "company and battalion sized units."

If they can do that, ISIL has a hell of a lot more men than 800 and some of the pictures on Drudge of ISIL driving HumVees in convoys looks like a lot more than 800. Can we propose the news accounts are designed to impugn the training efforts of the last administration.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-12 22:36|| 2014-06-12 22:36|| Front Page Top

#12 I have reason to question the 800 figure.

I read somewhere that reinforcements have been streaming in from Syria.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-12 22:53|| 2014-06-12 22:53|| Front Page Top

23:57 gorb
23:51 Squinty
23:50 Squinty
23:47 KBK
23:46 rammer
23:41 rammer
23:21 Bubba Graiting8281
23:09 KBK
23:06 Squinty
23:02 Squinty
22:53 Squinty
22:43 Bill Clinton
22:36 Bill Clinton
22:26 KBK
22:23 Squinty
22:13 SteveS
22:01 Bubba Graiting8281
21:58 Pappy
21:57 Pappy
21:43 rjschwarz
21:34 KBK
21:32 JohnQC
21:18 JohnQC
21:14 Herb Hitler8891