Let The Games Begin
Maliki finally got an offer he couldn’t refuse, probably from Iran, and stepped aside making a viable Iraqi government possible. It isn’t a certainty, but nothing would have changed if Maliki refused to leave.
Everyone except the Iraqi government and ISIS is ready to arm the Kurds, and the US is occasionally hitting some actual military targets in their air campaign. The attacks seems to be concentrated on heavy weapons and vehicles, which are major advantages that ISIS has over the Kurds.
The Neocon losers are all claiming that Zero could have prevented the rise of ISIS if he had been more involved in Iraq. This ignores the reality that the Iraqi government that the Neocons created wanted the US out and wasn’t interested in US concerns.
They are also claiming that ISIS could have been stopped if we had armed the ‘good’ insurgents in Syria. This ignores the fact that the people who started the movement against Assad wanted non-violent change, not weapons, and the later groups that took up guns had their weapons caches taken by ISIS. ISIS is and was the most unified and largest armed insurgent group in Syria. The only armed group that could reasonably be expected to win against them is the Syrian Army.
August 17, 2014 Comments Off on Let The Games Begin
