Apparently Iraq’s Prime Minister al Maliki learned something from the Obama administration: Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste!
The breaking news story this morning ( here and here) is that just four days after President Obama authorized our military to use air strikes against the ISIS in northern Iraq the supposedly out going Prime Minister has decided not to go. CNN has more:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Monday that he intends to stay in office for a third term, much to the chagrin of U.S. and other world leaders, who say the ability defend against the radical Sunni group ISIS is contingent on forming a more inclusive government.
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Iraqi forces and tanks surged into some Baghdad neighborhoods Sunday as a wave of troops swarmed Baghdad’s green zone, the secure area where many government buildings and the U.S. Embassy are located, two Iraqi police officials said.
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“You’ve got Nuri al-Maliki refusing to step down. Now he’s mobilized not just security troops loyal to him, but now he’s mobilized army units to put tanks in the streets,” said retired Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a CNN military analyst.
And, the US government’s official position?
“The United States fully supports President Fuad Masum in his role as guarantor of the Iraqi constitution,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Sunday.
What about the estimate 50,000 Yazidis and other (Christian?) minorities trapped the ISIS on a mountain top near Sinjar? Well, the US military is doing as much as they can by airlifting need supplies to the stranded refugees and also they are bombing ISIS artillery sites. But, the only way to save those poor souls on that mountain top is with boots on the ground. Those boots on the ground were and have been supplied by Kurdish military units and the Iraqi military. Unfortunately for those poor souls, the new Iraqi president appointed by parliment, Fuad Masum, that Maliki refuses to recognize, is a Kurd. And, Maliki appears to be using the military loyal to him to consolidate his hold on power. It doesn’t look good for the refugees at Sinjar.
In my opinion, what we are witnessing in Iraq _ and the Middle East in general _ is the unintended consequences of US foreign policy over the last 14+ years. At least I hope these consequences were unintended.
Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?
Reblogged this on BPI reblog and commented:
A Coup Underway In Baghdad?
Thank you!
http://arlinreport.com/2014/08/10/must-read-for-all-americans/
Futuret, thank you for that link. Amazing!!! When will Americans wake up to the threat we face?
I was neither shocked nor surprised this morning upon hearing this news this morning. Could this Iraqi version of Obama, Maliki, cut a deal and throw in with ISIS? And can John Kerry be brought in with a consultant fee to broker the deal. You have to laugh or you’ll cry. : )
Does Kerry know where Bahgdad is? I doubt it. Maybe Joe Biden should go with him.
In the past, the CIA took care of such problems. One life for thousands seems like a fair deal. Just saying.
Brennen must be sleeping on the job.
We should have just nuked the damn region and turned it into a parking lot. When will we learn that “nation building” isn’t worth it.
Good idea! Then we could give the glass parking lot to the Palestinians.
Amen, Infidel. We have seen that movie and know how it ends. It’s time for the big nukes.
It is sad to see everything we sacrificed over there having been done for nothing. At this point in time I wish we never went in there but we cannot change the past. I think Bush’s intentions were good, but Obama’s I am not so sure about. Everything he has done in that region has destabilized it and this is just the latest example.
I don’t know about Bush’s intentions, but Obbama has made a royal mess of things; that’s for sure.
Fools rush in where angels dare not tread…I want to believe that Bush I tried to explain to Bush II why Sadam had to stay but Bush II was and remains mental goober and intellectually challenged. Obama genuflected, apologized and gave a nod and a wink to his Muslim brothers to finish what Bush II started.