Wednesday, August 13, 2014
ISISISILIS
1-I am having a tough time descerning what to call this super strain of terrorists now flooding into Iraq. Born apparantly in Syria during the almost 4 year civil war. Is it ISIS, ISIL, or just IS?
2-I remember the Zipper had trouble with the two letter word version in 1998.
3-For simplicity I'll use the condensed version "IS" i.e. Islamic State.
4-As these superhuman terrorist (really they are nothing but a bunch of thugs with a new name)decended upon Iraq, the Iraq Army which the US trained and gave them >$200M high tech weapontry, dropped in place and headed for Baghdad.
5-The "IS" thugs killed ever Christian, Jew, anybody not of Muslim faith. Those lucky to excape fled to surrounding mountain tops, with not but the shirts on there back.
6-After procrasting for days pp finally sent a humanaitarian airborne fleet of transports to drop food, water, meds, supplies to the stranded refugees.
7-pp also authorized the Navy to send a few F-18 w/500# bombs to take out pinpoint "IS" weapons only. Most probably are US donated issue.
8-So as not to disturb pp while golfing on vacation, the SOD announced addition advisors, apparantly in loofers since the the words "boot or boots" is verboten by WH being sent to N. Iraq. Sounds like mission creep, as the total number of advisors now total ~ 1,000 plus unknown number of CIA, Special Forces. I hope we support the Kurds, in the long term to nationhood they richly deserve.
9-Should be interesating tonight, as pp and MP hosts a joint LDP fund raiser on Martha's Vineyard, for the very rich LDPs. MP had broad-sided pp on his wimpy foreign policy of which she was SOS. Whose calling the pot black, no pun intended.
10-By the way just to refresh your recall, pp earlier said this is not his fault the US is returning to Iraq, it's #43 fault for not establishing a SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement)with the Iraq government back in 2008? OMG! Or the Iraq government didn't bring up a SOFA, when he ended US combat involvement 12.31.2011 OMG-2. It was his 2008 campaign pledge and LDPs sang this song "OBL is dead and al-Qaeda is on the run" during the 2012 Campaign. US will be out of Iraq by 12.31.2011 so pp can focus on the good war in Afghanistan which US plans to abandon after Nov. 2014 mid-term elections!
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