Iraq is not a real country - simply a line drawn after the Ottoman Empire after WWII. (Howard Dean, MSNBC) President Malaki was living in Iran in exile for 20 years, as a Shiite. The current Sunni rebellion is based on Shiite Malakis successful attempt to marginalize them. Now, Shiite Iran, Shiite Syria and America will (paradoxically) join forces to thwart the vicious slaughter by the marauding Sunni insurgents, ISIS, bearing down on Baghdad. Though Republican NeoCons - who got us into this sectarian quagmire in 2003 - want full military involvement - Obama will have none of it. Expect Drone/Air strikes, but no Republican-advised boots on the ground. An all-out Civil War in Iraq is in no ones interests. The Sunni current slaughter of northern Kurds will force intervention, if it continues. ISIS - The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (thats Syria) is an offshoot of an earlier group, al-Qaida. As the prescient Vice President Joe Biden told us years ago, (and I suggested in 2003), the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunnis should be three separate nations - they have nothing in common, centuries of hostility and will never progress as one nation. The American Embassy in Baghdad, (larger than Vatican City), may be forced to team with Iran, for its own survival. (MSNBC) 1700 deaths, in one day, ISIS claims. $400,000,000, stolen from Mosuls main bank, ISIS is well-funded, well-trained and bent on revenge on Shiites. They are closing in. Lebanon is now the stable Middle East country, to give you an idea. Luckily, Iraqs oil reserves are in the south, with ISISs incursion coming from the Kurdish north.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:49:28 +0000
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