What the hell ISIS...Follow

Well the mammalian brain isn't doing much of anything.

Let's not forget that the ISIS flag has been flying high in Syria for quite some time now. I suppose some may see this in Iraq as an interesting distraction.. since we wouldn't want to escalate some kind of proxy war between US and Russia via the SAF and our buddies in FSA(sorry.. the MODERATE ones).

Either way.. the Great Caliphate seems inevitable to me. Any guesses on how long we have until someone pops up claiming to be the Grand Mahdi?

This thread got me to go back and watch some more Archer. Fantastic.

Maybe this could have been avoided

Sure, by leaving Saddam in power. Otherwise, not really, barring genocide.

But... but... the purple thumbs...

Yeah, well, we just couldn't leave all those dangerous milk trucks in Iraq.

Just for fun...

Syrian warplanes strike in Iraq.

Of course we rebuke them for killing civilians, despite the fact we're considering doing exactly the same thing, in some of the same areas no less. I think I just find this whole mess amusing at this point. Well not the killing people of course, but watching people in the press try to consistently assign 'bad guys' and 'good guys' is popcorn worthy.

I'm paying your salary!

The only way i see this ending without concerted ethnic cleansing is a negotiated partition, but ISIS needs to be blooded before that option really exists.

This is the same group of people that the US just spent 3 years funding and supplying in Syria. Isn't it awesome when something completely blows up in your face. If them using Chemical weapons and almost drawing the US into another war their (thanks to the red line, and thanks to Russia for stepping in), wasn't enough, perhaps a militant group controlling territory from Bahgdad to the Mediterranean will be.

Or maybe Obama and Kerry will continue to drone on about how there is no extremist elements within the Syrian Rebels, and that the US is doing everything it can to ensure money and munitions are being spent solely to remove Assad and not kill hundreds of innocents a week.

Then again, Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz and Uncle Sam are still looking for that sweet sweet pipeline connecting through Iraq into Turkey and West to the Med., so what better way then to have your borderless army dig out some territory for you to put one in.

Still all about that Oil. The whole sectarian divisive thing is just to give the media something to talk about. In 10 years we will be back to complaining about Shiite evil doers and jump back on the Sunni bandwagon.

Edited, Jun 26th 2014 9:23am by rdmcandie

Still all about that Oil

What a revolutionary idea. You mean it's not about the US' deep abiding love for the freedom of Arab peoples?

The one controlled by the Kurds who won't bend to the whims of Baghdad...let alone the US. Why do you think that the US so badly wants Assad out of Syria, its because he said no to a pipeline. You don't really think its because the US Government started suddenly caring about the people of Syria do you.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines Some good bedtime reading if you click through the story links and read them as well.

Its not a new game. The US and Saudis want a concrete Oil avenue out of the middle east, they don't have that through Kurdish Iraq, and the only other avenue is through Syria, and the Sunni Rebels funded and supplied by the US (for at least the last 3 years publically) and Saudis (for decades) now controls territory from Baghdad to the Med. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75506000/gif/_75506457_iraq_isis_planed_area_624_v2.gif

Its all about the oil, its why Gaddafi was ousted in Libya, its why Saddam was removed in Iraq. Its why the EU and US helped push for a coup in Ukraine to get Russia to overstep its bounds and sanction it...Granted Putin isn't an idiot and signed huge deals with India and China so the EU can @#%^ off whenever it wants with no impact on Russia. (see: **** the EU Phone Leaks. Because the US doesn't care about the EU either.)



Edited, Jun 27th 2014 1:04am by rdmcandie