On 6/17/2014 2:27 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
It may be so. But the Sunni militants can't operate as easily when
most of the people are Shiites. The neighbors and local imams can
alert the central government troops of any potential terrorist cell
activities.
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According to what I've read, the insurgents are passing through Sunni
dominated districts but they will be slowed or maybe stopped before they
get to Baghdad. Boots on the ground won't come from Syria because their
forces are already stretched thin. Iran already has some QUDS forces
inside Iraq. Partitioning Iraq along sectarian lines is too complicated.
The problem is, the insurgents now have millions of dollars in gold
looted from the bank.
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IMO, Obama and his team are already making negotiations with Iran to
step in and the roles both countries will play to keep Iraq afloat for
at least the time being.
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Probably the only thing that save Iraq as a nation is boots on the
ground to rout out and destroy the ISIS. Who is going to do that?
The problem is, we stopped after invading Afghanistan and Iraq - we
should have taken over the whole Middle East - after all, we created it
in the first place - lines drawn in the sand after WW II. Instead, we
isolated ourselves and let the dictators and religious extremists take
over. Now, we have to deal with nuclear armed religious sects based on
opposing religious sectarianism.
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---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote :
On 6/17/2014 12:54 AM, jr_esq@... <mailto:jr_esq@...> [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
> 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.
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I'm not convinced that dividing up Iraq along sectarian lines is going
to stop the constant bombings in Baghdad or elsewhere in Iraq. There's
no Iraqi state now - it's a full scale civil war already. Iran will step
in to fill the power void left by the U.S. That's what I think - Iran
will be the new super-power in the Middle East.
