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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe US bombing its own guns perfectly sums up America’s total failure in Iraq
Warning...this may cause your brain to hurt.....
It keeps going: the US is intervening on behalf of Iraqi Kurds, our ally, because their military has old Russian-made weapons, whereas ISIS, which is America's enemy, has higher-quality American weapons. "[Kurdish forces] are literally outgunned by an ISIS that is fighting with hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment seized from the Iraqi Army who abandoned it," Ali Khedery, a former American official in Iraq, told the New York Times.
More: One reason that ISIS has been so successful at conquering northern Iraq is that it has a huge base of operations in Syria, where it had exploited the civil war to overtake huge swathes of Syrian territory. One reason that ISIS was so successful in Syria is that the US refused to arm moderate Syrian rebels, for fear that the weapons would fall into ISIS's hands. So that made it easier for ISIS to overpower the under-funded moderate rebels, and now ISIS has seized, in Iraq, much better versions of the weapons that we were so worried they might acquire in Syria. So now we're bombing the guns that we didn't mean to give ISIS because we didn't give guns to their enemies because then ISIS might get guns.
got it?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)msongs
(67,193 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)In Catch-22, Milo contracted to have American planes bomb their own airfield.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I had forgotten all about that.
Fits perfectly.
malaise
(267,784 posts)The neo-cons are celebrating.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Priceless.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)The US, UK, and France are still not arming the people who are willing to fight ISIS -- the Kurdish peshmergas -- because the Baghdad government won't approve arming the Kurds:
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/22082014
Even though the Iraqi army turned tail and ran in the face of ISIS, the official army refused to defend the Christians and Yazidis, the Baghdad government still won't approve arming the Kurds who are willing to fight ISIS.
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)has its roots in "shock and awe".
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I bet there was once a white paper on how long it would take for this to happen. When the timeline showed it would be someone else's problem all systems were go.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)We can't have THAT!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)bleedinglib
(212 posts)Iraq was much better off under the dictator we installed too fight the Iranians?
Gee, I wonder how George Bush & President Cheney are doing these days?
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 23, 2014, 07:43 PM - Edit history (1)
The fact that it claims that the U.S. did not arm the Syrian rebels. So the author wants more U.S. involvement in Syria. I thought the U.S. was giving them arms covertly. There is an article about it:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/27/us-usa-syria-rebels-idUSBREA0Q1S320140127
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)americannightmare
(322 posts)survive the greed, avarice and stupidity of our leaders...
Martin Eden
(12,801 posts)We provide blowtorches to people who live in a tinderbox.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)My brain hurts.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)We are fighting Westerners, who are using American weapons to fight with, and using American owned social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to recruit and spread their propaganda, and many of whom were also trained by our allies.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)It's a total success for the people who sold the shit.
Oh, and they're also getting paid for the bombs and jets and fuel being used to destroy the shit they already got paid for.
War profiteering is a wheel. It goes round and round.
...and pays for the people who choose to keep shooting.
See?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)"War is a racket."
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)and the contractors and oilmen profit from every devastated country running with blood.
It's a bloodfest of profit, all perpetrated in our name.