On 6/17/2014 3:43 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Obama is in a tough situation. But the die has been cast. The US
cannot get involved in an Islamic civil war.
Why can't they? If they hadn't opened the door for sectarian violence
and al-Queda in 2003 this wouldn't be happening. It isn't like they
weren't warned...
The Iraqis had their chance to forge a nation for their own benefit,
but apparently cannot do so.
This is the reason the US didn't invade Iraq after the first Gulf war,
the best analysis showed that a Shia/Sunni rift was all but inevitable
and without a long term stabilising force they'd be better off leaving
Saddam in charge.
Which didn't stop the US & UK encouraging the southern marsh Arabs to
rise up against Saddam, promising them any help in a revolution before
pulling out and leaving them high and dry and facing severe reprisals
from Saddam, which they got and the attrocities formed part of the
dossier presented to British MP's about how we need to get rid of Saddam!
If the country had to be divided due to religious reasons, let it be
so. This may be the best answer, rather than having constant bombings
in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.
It's inevitable, the region was split along Shia/Sunni lines for
centuries before the French and British carved it up to benefit their
own imperial ends, trouble is everyone is so fired up with jihad that
any Islamic state will inevitably start planning more 9/11 type
attacks. And we have big plans for Iraqi oil, which is supposed to be
taking over when the Saudi wells start to run dry.
All a bit of a pickle really....
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The U.S., Britain and Europe have an insatiable appetite for oil, maybe
greater now than a few years ago. And now there is a panic - Russian oil
and gas may be turned off any day. The U.S. and Britain have left a
power void in Iraq and now it's being filled by insurgents. Iran will
own Iraq in a few years. We will probably go to war to protect Saudi
Arabia. At any rate, there won't be a stable Middle East anytime soon.
Maybe it's time to implement Plan B since that smart diplomacy doesn't
seem to be working out.
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