The public beheadings and hangings, be they Daesh or Taliban, serves a purpose. That purpose has worked in Iraq. The soldiers aren't going to fight. When is the USA Congress and Executive Branch going to come to terms with the fact the people in Iraq are not first Iraqis, they are first Shi'ites or Sunnis or otherwise. They will fight for God, but, not another man because he calls himself Prime Minister.
Why is Iran a theocracy? Why is Saudi Arabia a monarchy with a leader that is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques?
The history is significant. The USA has only been in existence for over 200 years. The people of the Middle East has been organized around their religious leanings for millennia.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques was brought about by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517. The Two Holy Mosques are in Mecca and Medina. They were claimed by Selim after he won a war. Get the picture yet?
May 19. 2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama (click here) was briefed by his top national security advisers on Tuesday on the situation in Iraq and the strategy to counter Islamic State militants, the White House National Security Council said in a statement.
Why is Iran a theocracy? Why is Saudi Arabia a monarchy with a leader that is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques?
The history is significant. The USA has only been in existence for over 200 years. The people of the Middle East has been organized around their religious leanings for millennia.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques was brought about by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517. The Two Holy Mosques are in Mecca and Medina. They were claimed by Selim after he won a war. Get the picture yet?
May 19. 2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama (click here) was briefed by his top national security advisers on Tuesday on the situation in Iraq and the strategy to counter Islamic State militants, the White House National Security Council said in a statement.
Obama
"reaffirmed the strong U.S. support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi, the White House said after the meeting, which involved 25
advisers including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John
Kerry, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and General Lloyd Austin of U.S.
Central Command.
There has been concern in the
United States about the risk of sectarian strife in Ramadi, the capital
of Sunni-majority Anbar province, because of the need to use Shi'ite
militias to try to take back the city from Islamic State fighters....A third world country doesn't become a first world country because the USA demands it in the way of nation building. It's ridiculous. It was completely stupid to enter Iraq. The USA never was backed by any traditional allies, except, the UK. The only reason Prime Minister Blair came to Bush's side because he was afraid of what would transpire if he didn't. Ostracizing the Ba'athists was a gigantic error.
I witnessed the massive movement of people in Southern Iraq when the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani ordered them to march to stop the USA military from destroying their Mosque. He was in a hospital bed when he did that. The hospital bed was in London. He got up from his hospital bed and flew back to his people. They stopped the USA military.
Got that?
The Shi'ites of Iraq have to establish a land area they can defend as an army of the Ayatollah. The Kurds have to draw their own line in the sand they can defend to protect their families. The PKK have to join the Kurdish military to assist in that defense. When the region is static and the borders are defensible; the militarys can then come together through diplomatic relations to take on more land piece by piece. It is the only thing that will result in a stable and productive country for each of the ethnicities.
Saudi Arabia is going to have to decide if they will defend Al Anbar and annex it or allow war to continue at it's border with Daesh.
