/In just a few years Iran will probably have nuclear weapons and rule over the entire Middle East. They will cut off the oil supply to Europe and sell oil instead to China.
If not, then the ISIS will control both Syria and Iraq and the terrorist threat to Europe will be greatly increased. If not by an outright invasion, by motivating sleeper cells already living in France or Germany. / Quoting "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]>:
Someone observed recently that the reason a soldier in a sticky situation - when his subjective state is screaming "make a run for it" - nevertheless stays put is because he knows that his comrades would do the same for him if they were in his place.
/When you are a fighter in a war you have to believe in a cause - this is lacking in Iraqi soldiers. Many of them do not believe in a united Iraq at all - it's a religious civil war. It might have been better to have divided Iraq into regions - Kurd, Sunni and Shiite./
Having seen the Iraqi Army hightail it on numerous occasions no foot soldier can have confidence in the mutual loyalty and support of his fellow combatants. In other words, it isn't an "army" in the full sense.
/We all know who is doing the real fighting in Iraq against the ISIS - the Iraqi Shiite militias. The U.S. has squandered the success we achieved in Iraq. We won the war,according to Joe Biden, but we lost it under the Democratic administration. Go figure./
Leonidas, the Spartan warrior king who died at Thermopylae, would not be impressed . . .
/Indeed, he would probably not be impressed with Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces./
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