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| Iraq |
| How the US back-stabbed the Kurds |
| 2017-11-02 |
| [Jpost] On October 5 Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Army Col. Ryan Dillon tweeted that Iraqi forces had liberated Hawija, the last Islamic State pocket in northern Iraq. After the offensive, the Iraqi Army was expected to shift far to the west, to fight ISIS in Anbar. Instead, it paused for 10 days and then rolled into Kirkuk, stripping the Kurdistan Regional Government of one of its largest cities, conquering oil fields the Kurds had been using, and beginning a massive and unprecedented crackdown on the Kurdistan region. The extraordinary steps Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has taken to reverse decades of Kurdish gains in autonomy seem to have the United States’ stamp of approval and have been encouraged by Iran, both of which are key allies of Baghdad. How did this happen, and why did it happen so quickly? Up until October 5, when the Hawija offensive ended, the Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi forces had all been fighting the same enemy, and both of them had US special forces and advisers close to their units. Both groups were being trained by parts of the 70-nation anti-ISIS coalition. Simple, because they don't (think they) need the Kurds anymore. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Really, Rantburgers, you didn't see this coming? Really? It's not over. You realize this, right? |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2017-11-02 23:15 |
| #8 This will be remembered. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-11-02 20:06 |
| #7 Why do we need foreign embassies? Otherwise, who would distribute the payoffs? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-02 19:54 |
| #6 I'm embarrassed for my country. |
| Posted by: Vernal Stalin4700 2017-11-02 19:43 |
| #5 Why do we need a state department? What do they do that could not be done by a 'mail in' bureau? Why do we need foreign embassies? |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2017-11-02 19:10 |
| #4 This may come back to haunt the US. There was once this guy "Nguyễn Sinh Cung" in southeast Asia who was actively aiding US and British forces in defeating the Japanese in that area. He once upon a time in 1945, accompanied and encouraged by US OSS Agents, declared: All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of the French Revolution made in 1791 also states: All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights. Those are undeniable truths. ... In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty. They have fettered public opinion; they have practiced obscurantism against our people. In the field of economics, they have fleeced us to the backbone, impoverished our people and devastated our land. They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials. They have monopolized the issuing of bank notes and the export trade. They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a state of extreme poverty. After the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies, our whole people rose to regain our national sovereignty... We are convinced that the Allied nations, which at Tehran and San Francisco have acknowledged the principles of self-determination and equality of nations, will not refuse to acknowledge the independence. A people who have courageously opposed domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent! For these reasons, we, the members of the Provisional Government, solemnly declare to the world that: [This Nation] has the right to be a free and independent country—and in fact it is so already. And thus the entire ... people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty. Some pretty strong echoes of the US Declaration of Independence in there. His Intel and Military associates from the US trained him well. He was of course backstabbed by the US State Dept, which drove him away from the nascent respect for Western Democracy that had been planted by the US. I think he changed his name somewhere along the way. They ended up calling him Ho Chi Minh. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-11-02 18:08 |
| #3 "These people are tough, reliable and upright. Shit, that's creepy..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-11-02 08:37 |
| #2 What, again? |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-11-02 05:49 |
| #1 Depressing, but predictable. The thing about geopolitics is you can change the politics, but not the geo. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-11-02 05:44 |