[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread salyavin808
---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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/17/2014 12:54 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [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. I'm not convinced that dividing up Iraq along

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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. IMO, Obama and his team are already making negotiations with Iran to step in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Salyavin, My reply is in blue letters. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com 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.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good analysis - Yep, Bush was acting on the sentiment in the US, post-911, that No One Fucks With The US, And Gets Away With It. But he overplayed his hand, surrounded by a bunch of hotheads, and got us locked into a position that is only defensible as total, continuous war, on terror, which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-17 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/17/2014 2:27 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [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. According

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Sends U.S.Troops to Iraq

2014-06-16 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Obama is in a tough situation. But the die has been cast. The US cannot get involved in an Islamic civil war. The Iraqis had their chance to forge a nation for their own benefit, but apparently cannot do so. If the country had to be divided due to religious reasons, let it be so. This