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2014-07-12 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2014-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Good for them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-12 00:42|| 2014-07-12 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 It called on the Kurds to withdraw immediately to avoid "dire consequences".

Or they will litter their streets with discarded weapons?

Posted by bbrewer126 2014-07-12 00:51|| 2014-07-12 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Or they will litter their streets with discarded weapons?

Not a bad start for Snark of the Day!

I'm starting to get the impression that Iraq is toast as far as being an actual nation any more.

Posted by SteveS 2014-07-12 09:44|| 2014-07-12 09:44|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Kurds pull back, then ISIS will walk in. This is why they went there in the first place. The Shia Iraq government's units in the north are so corrupt, the only thing they are masters of is the "drop and run" technique of abandoning positions and equipment, as taught to them by whichever relative they paid off to get rank and position in a unit there.

The Kurds, having needed to fight for survival, have not developed such ingrained weaknesses to the degree the Shia have. Clannishness, bribery and Arab culture are a recipe for a failed society any larger than a sultan's tent.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-12 12:48|| 2014-07-12 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Possession is nine tenths of the law.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-12 13:17|| 2014-07-12 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 "Clannishness, bribery and Arab culture are a recipe for a failed society any larger than a sultan's tent."

Coalition Forces had to pay Iraqis to keep their Baghdad streets and homes clean. In contrast, Filipinos of all incomes keep their areas clean as a matter of pride and probably also hygiene.

Good for the Kurds. Their cities were clean and open to Coalition Forces, who could walk there as if civilians, without weapons or fear. A welcome rest from Arabs.

Kurds and Indians long since should have been strategic US allies, as close as Japan and Philippines. Stupid Ivy League "leaders" could not/cannot see this.

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-12 13:18|| 2014-07-12 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Running over an AK in the middle of the street can be hard on a set of Michelins.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-12 13:30|| 2014-07-12 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "Stupid Ivy League 'leaders' ~~could not/cannot~~ refuse to see this."

Fixed.

Posted by Barbara 2014-07-12 13:31|| 2014-07-12 13:31|| Front Page Top

#9 "Fixed."

Perhaps the Kurds' and Indians' mistake -- in not being allies of the USA -- was not applying the "The Mouse That Roared Principle," to wit, attack the USA, be defeated by the USA and then swim in her largess and friendship.

Just kidding. Looking for levity.

The Prophet Isaiah, I think it was, who looked at the question of could not vice will not and came down on the side of could not: make the heart of this people fat, something to that effect.

Willful blindness, persisting, probably goes to involuntary blindness. Habit, preference, whatnot. It seems to me that when a blindness of whatever origin persists over goodly duration, it becomes institutional and bears the appearance if not the stamp of providence. viz. Isaiah. An interesting question, in any case, one that exercised that and many a subsequent worthy.

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-12 18:51|| 2014-07-12 18:51|| Front Page Top

#10 The Kurds won it, they should keep it. Hell of a lot better choice than anyone else in that region having it.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-12 19:42|| 2014-07-12 19:42|| Front Page Top

#11 to wit, attack the USA, be defeated by the USA and then swim in her largess and friendship.Just kidding. Looking for levity.

Well documented humour ek se.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-12 19:58|| 2014-07-12 19:58|| Front Page Top

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