Nussaibah Younis at The New York Times on why the army alone can’t save Iraq. “The Obama administration must help the Iraqi government retake the city of Mosul from Islamists and stem their march toward Baghdad. On Tuesday, Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, fell to Islamist militants led by a breakaway group of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. That puts ISIS, a leading force in the Syrian civil war, dangerously close to its goal: establishing a militant Islamist mini-state straddling the two most violent countries in the Middle East,” Younis writes. “The blitz shocked Baghdad and Washington, but Iraqi militant groups had been gaining ground for months. Even so, the fall of Mosul is a game-changer. The city is a commercial, political and military hub. The extremists have seized American-supplied weaponry, including armored vehicles. A long ISIS occupation could be ruinous for Iraq.” Antalya International University Professor Tarık Oğuzlu tweets, “Malikis sectarian policies need to change....a good analysis of the rise of ISID.”
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:26:51 +0000
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