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2014-06-22 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2014-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 3,000 bad guys and a million volunteers to fight them?

Why are the baddies still on charge?

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-22 06:42|| 2014-06-22 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Why are the baddies still on charge?

I remember trying to wrangle a number of smallish children, half not my own and therefore not familiar with our way of doing things, to the swimming pool, Bobby. How much longer must it take to get a million amateurs (ranging up to semi-pro, to be sure) all marching in the same direction with a bare minimum of kit?

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-22 07:24|| 2014-06-22 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Herding cats. Without a log tail either. The locals have a big problem with log(istics). It's not in their blood or culture. What little there is often is corrupted by the usual suspects.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-22 09:12|| 2014-06-22 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Could be the start of a general Sunni tribal revolt - basically taking their own cities to prevent ISIS from doing so - and also to keep out the Shia militias and Shia dominated Iraqi Army and Police units (which usually turn tail and run anyways).

If this can actually be encouraged, then the Sunni tribes can be turned against the ISIS, the Shia kept out, and the partition of Iraq becomes a reality, albeit 8 years too late.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-22 12:00|| 2014-06-22 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll go with OldSpook's analysis and recommend an even handed approach to western supplied, lethal aid.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-22 12:23|| 2014-06-22 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 .. and the Kurds.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-22 12:56|| 2014-06-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

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