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2014-06-15 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2014-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1 If they have most of the Sunni areas is that enough for them?

The area that ISIS/ISIL wants contains Arabs whose brand of Islam matches that in Saudi Arabia. It spans parts of Syria, parts of Iraq and parts of Saudi Arabia. ISIS/ISIL may have got what they wanted.

Now their Baathist allies may not be satisfied with that. First check.

Saudi Arabia has a history of setting up proxies to destroy their enemies after which the Saudis turn on their proxies and destroy them.

Dare the Iraqi army to regroup and come back at them?

Think back to the surge and what it took to take back Fallujah. Do you think that al-Maliki's corrupt and broken Shia army can repeat that feat without extensive US help? The IAF is finding that Close Air Support is not as easy as it looks.

B.O. has left a big mess for the next US President to fix. What an a*shat.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-15 00:50|| 2014-06-15 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Digging in, awaiting follow on. Pretty long movement over the last week, maybe time take a blow, to do a little joyful screaming and wait for the stragglers to come dragging in.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-15 05:37|| 2014-06-15 05:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't know what kinda supply line these guys use, if they have even a very primitive one, (instead of foraging) they likely have out run it. Not sure what they need that they can't get locally tho. Any insight here would be appreciated.

Remember is old saying:
Amateur think of tactics, professionals think of logistics, the survivors seek quality cover.

Actually not old, I just made it up a minute ago.
(I think)

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-15 05:45|| 2014-06-15 05:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure anything they need (except boots) has been dropped by the Iraqi military.

Posted by bbrewer126 2014-06-15 09:04|| 2014-06-15 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like it's gonna be another protracted proxy war similar to Syria with Iran backing one faction and Soddies backing another. Should keep 'em busy for a while anyway.

But I notice that John McCain has been strangely silent lately. What's up with that?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-06-15 11:05|| 2014-06-15 11:05|| Front Page Top

#6 He's eating

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-15 11:56|| 2014-06-15 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmm, can I suppose out loud that maybe the empty suit's speech to West Point in which he essentially said the US will not use their military for anything was a green light for all of these people to move forward in Iraq?

Seems to me a lot of things are happening all at once on the heels of that pussification of US foreign policy/national defense posture.

So which do you want? The Bush Doctrine or the Empty Suit Doctrine?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-15 12:01|| 2014-06-15 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not so sure this will go anywhere. In Syria yes, this will boost their efforts tremendously. But I see ISIL pulling back with all their new, shiny equipment in a week or two. In hindsight that may have been the plan all along, just they saw the Iraqi's flee Mosul. Then it was kind of a feeding frenzy for everything not nailed down.

But looking on the bright side, at least they know how to use the equipment.

Posted by Charles 2014-06-15 12:31|| 2014-06-15 12:31|| Front Page Top

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