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2014-06-23 Iraq

Sunni Militants Seize More Iraq Towns as U.S. Presses Unity

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1 If Obama and the idiots at stet keep pressing for unity, they will get it - Sunnis unified under an ISIS banner.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-23 00:15|| 2014-06-23 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The snuffies also clashed with security forces and pro-government tribal fighters in Al-Alam, just east of Tikrit, with turbans killing the women's affairs adviser to the provincial governor.

Al Alam is a Sunni area, so it's clear that not all Sunnis are pro-ISIS.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-06-23 09:03|| 2014-06-23 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 ZF, Im aware that not all Sunni are ISIS, but the fact remains that so manyhave joined ISIS, that the non ISIS Sunni will be rolled pretty quickly by neighboring tribes. Its the Prisoner's Dilemma, writ large. The key is the inability of the ISF (IA, Police) to provide any security for those sunni who wish to fight the ISIS.

Thats why the Obama solution of doing nothing will end up wit ISIS having their own Caliphate in the middle of Iraq. What is needed is some way to support the Sunni tribes in the middle in an autonomous self-rule area, like the Kurds are doing up north. That is why Obama will fail - he has no ballls to override State, anbd he simply isnt smart enought to carry this off, and he is too arrogant to task the CIA and Mil assets to achieve this end via assets operating openly in Jordan and Kurdistan, semi-clandestine fashion - which means some officials uniformed elements openly training in places liek Camp Taji, and the hard ops guys operating covered/covert in rural/remote areas, and completely clandestinely in Syria. The Open Support would be airpower strikes on any and all ISIS command elements and any large enough groups of forces.

Problem is that the groudwork for this should have been laid in a while back, and I doubt that anyone in the administration now had the foresight and guts to do so.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-23 11:32|| 2014-06-23 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Addressing future US Army officers at West Point, the President declared: 'Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.'

Seems like Obama is no carpenter. He is destroying US power and prestige in the world. I never thought that I would say this but please, bring back Jimmy Carter.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-23 11:53|| 2014-06-23 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 OS man, read your second paragraph, you are making a huge leap, the leap being that the President gives a damn. I doubt he could get thru that paragraph, excellent tho it is, with out eye glazing and NBA dreams wiping out all information.

He doesn't care. He's got 2.3 years of damn fine living ahead of him and this kinda shit is not going to screw that up.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-23 13:38|| 2014-06-23 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe he doesn't care about Iraq - that's no big deal. The problem is the wider sweep of things if the ISIS is allowed to control a geographic keystone of the middle east - and the ISIS has promised to strike at us. I take that at face value, and even Obama cannot be that stupid or narcissistic.... or can he? To use an old phrase, Obama may not be interested in war, but war will certainly be interested in him.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-23 14:03|| 2014-06-23 14:03|| Front Page Top

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Posted by KBK 2014-06-23 20:24|| 2014-06-23 20:24|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Shipman 2014-06-23 21:02|| 2014-06-23 21:02|| Front Page Top

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