LET THE THIRD CRUSADE BEGIN …
After supporting radical jihadists in Syria, the administration of Barack Obama is now going to bomb them in Iraq – two-and-a-half years after the last American troops left the Middle Eastern country.
Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq began late Thursday, according to Kurdish and Iraqi officials who spoke with The New York Times – although the U.S. Defense Department attributed the early bombings to operations carried out by Iraqi or Turkish fighters.
Either way … “boom, like that.”
Iraq has descended into chaos in the wake of the December 2011 withdrawal of American forces, who fought and died there for eight years to achieve … well, nothing.
America’s diplomatic efforts since then have been a hypocritical joke – as U.S. politicians have sought to undermine the authority of the puppet leader hand-picked by our own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Two months ago, Obama sent military advisors to Iraq in an effort to combat the surging forces of ISIS – the al-Qaeda inspired army that’s seeking to create a new caliphate (or religious-led state) in Iraq, Syria and beyond. Why would we fight against ISIS in Iraq – while assisting them in Syria?
That’s a good question … perhaps U.S. Sen. John McCain can answer it. After all, he and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham are all “buddy buddy” with those guys.
The Obama administration says it is authorizing “targeted airstrikes” to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe” in northern Iraq, where ISIS fighters are committing all sorts of atrocities.
We agree what’s happening there is terrible … just as the atrocities being committed in the ongoing battle between Israel and Gaza are terrible.
Here’s the thing, though: America is broke. Not broke, even, trillions of dollars in debt. In fact a big chunk of that debt came from sending hundreds of thousands of troops to the Middle East – several thousand of whom never came back. And thousands more who came back with missing limbs or post traumatic stress disorder.
And for what? So that these people can start killing each other all over again? And target us for acts of terror because we interfered in their fight?
You’d think at some point our country would learn …
These aren’t our battles, and we have no business fighting them.
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UPDATE: More on this story.
12 comments
whoever wrote this, is a moron clearly
Will, did you edit the article after posting? I swear the first time I read it you said American planes were conducting air strikes.
Now would Sic Willie do that? I am sure he would tell his readers of his original error and its correction. He is, after all, a “journalist” isn’t he?
As I listened to the President tonight I heard…I will but…
muslim Obama’s support of radical terrorists like Hamas and the muslim brotherhood has terrified Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and a couple of other ‘moderate ‘ countries in the middle east.
muslim Obama has caused a potential genocide against Christians in Iraq and because of the mid-terms in November has to act with air strikes. A slaughter of thousands of Christians in Iraq with the terrorists taking Baghdad AFTER Obama supported Hamas against Israel ,would indeed lead to impeachment when combined with the border issues ,AFTER the November elections.
Apparently air strike have begun. Wonder who Rand Paul will support? He is a disgrace.
I have sure lost a lot of my previous faith in Rand Paul lately. He sounds more and more like his nut job dad every time he makes a” profound statement.” Our Terrorist-N-Chief is finally doing , six months and many casualties later, what he should have done when ISIS first invaded Iraq. But since all the terrorists hang together he waited. Again McCain and Graham just jump up and yell “shoot something at somebody” without the knowledge of what they are talking about. The first” mistake” was pulling our troops out of Iraq. I told Bill back during the senate campaign that Fallujah was his generation’s Saigon. At least they didn’t have to helicopter the last ones out off the roof of the embassy. Another example of wasting our best and brightest by the liberal Dims.
You are dead on about Paul and why Iraq fell to the terrorists.Excellent points as usual.
ISIS never invaded Iraq. Their formal name is the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.” They are an organization made up large of Iraqi Sunni’s, whose Wahhabi-type ideology is fueled by madrassas in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, which are maintained by our tax dollars in the form of foreign aid. ISIS would not be ravaging Iraq had we not invaded and deposed Saddam in the first place, whose dictatorial rule was the only thing that kept Iraq stable. Thinking that the United States military can solve ethnic and religion conflicts that have existed for a millennia is the epitome of arrogance and stupidity. Iraq is three separate countries and was administered by the Ottomans as such. Absent continuous U.S. military presence for the next two centuries, these divisions will continue, and I’ll be damned if it’s right to tell an 18 year old to die in a country who don’t want us there for a war that seems to only benefit the defense contractors and oil execs who donate big money to political campaigns. And as for us protecting the Yazidis, we had no problem arming the Syrian rebels, who were largely comprised of groups that have defected to ISIS, to take out Bashar Al-Assad. This would have most certainly resulted in the genocide of Syria’s Alawite, Druz and Orthodox Christian minorities. The real purpose of this action is to protect the Kurds, who are the Israeli’s only friend in that region and have vast reserves of natural resources, especially oil. ISIS’s control of Kurdistan would essentially cut off Israel’s largest supplier of oil. We are ready to go to war to protect Israel’s oil supply. Man have our politicians sold us out.
“ISIS’s control of Kurdistan would essentially cut off Israel’s largest supplier of oil.”
Can this even remotely be true?
JC is the first time I had heard that. I certainly hope they aren’t that short sighted.
Looks like a pre-teen wrote this OR just a regular adult liberal. From what I remember, we didn’t bomb Afghanistan prior to 911 so this is not only poorly written but very misleading.
Boy, “Dirty Dick” Cheney’s neocolonial war in Iraq is progressing SO well. Though McCain did warn us that it may take 100 years.