You are being naive. The international community WANTS this situation - war is
good for business. The more fighting there is the more money both governments
and the arms manufacturers and arms dealers make, not to mention the lobbying
groups who lobby the guv'ment on behalf of the arms makers and defense
contractors.
From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US-Supplied Weapons End Up With IS
Mike,
As I mentioned to Fleetwood, the solution is to have an international force to
eliminate IS, maintain the peace and stability in the land. This should not be
shouldered by the USA exclusively. The Arab and European countries should
contribute their share of troop strength in this endeavor. As a matter of
fact, the UN should send their own troops there too.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
Funny thing is... we had it won by 2008. We had an Iraqi army in training...
yes training and relative calm and order established when our *Dear One*
decided that He needed to fulfill his campaign promise to bring the troops
home, before the Iraqis were really ready. Now we're in this current situation
that Bush and everyone else warned would happen if we left prematurely. How
long would we have needed to stay? Who knows? We still have troops in
Duetschland and Japan and they aren't seen as occupiers but as allies. Four
thousand lives, hundreds of thousands of minds and limbs, trillions of dollars,
and hopes for a stabilizing force for peace in a region, flushed down the
toilet for a campaign promise and now we may be need to return and do it all
again or face a worse situation. Did you notice, barely mentioned in the news,
that the troops are not coming home from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, as
promised? Yes, now they're staying... indefinitely. Surprise surprise!
From: "fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:15 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US-Supplied Weapons End Up With IS
You know that sign in gift shops, "you break it, you buy it"? Same thing
applies here - We own the mess. I was a little naive about our intentions in
Iraq when we went in the first time, but after I saw the deliberate sacking of
their national museum, and have recognized since that we were solely protecting
our interests, their culture be damned. This being the case, we will only
attract those who need work, into the Iraqi army, not those who truly want to
defend their country. Remember "Vietnamization", where we trained a similar
army in S. Vietnam, to fight their own battles? The country was overrun in a
couple of years. Same thing will happen in Iraq, if we don't land troops again.
What a mess.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Entrenched corruption in the Iraqi military is undermining the fight against
the Islamic State. This is the downside in relying on a questionable army to
carry out the task of suppressing the Islamists. If conditions get worse, US
troops may end up fighting in Iraq again.
In the meantime, Iran is secretly working on acquiring Iraq if things fall
apart.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/iraq-corrupt-government-weapons-reportedly-133416968.html
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