10-29-2014, 10:53 AM
Turkey sits at their border with tanks and artillery watching as the U.S. bombs them. They are not taking sides but as ISIS does not recognize borders they may end up regretting not getting more involved. This is a problem that Maliki could have avoided if he had allowed the Sunnis to have representation alongside the Shiites. When he slaughtered the protesters it gave rise to Saddams old Batth party. Most of the leaders in ISIS are old officers that were fighting with Saddam.
Saddam may have been a dictator but he kept Iran at bay and Iraq had at least some kind of government. The U.S. should probably have just kept him from Kuwait and we did but we wanted democracy and oil and were just not prepared for what was to come.
Today there is no coalition because no other countries trust us, and I don't blame them. This is not the first time the middle east has shown their blood lust but it is the first time that graphic images and atrocities are recorded and sent out to the world in this way. Cold blooded and with a cause they storm across the region in American tanks and artillery flaunting our failures.
Saddam may have been a dictator but he kept Iran at bay and Iraq had at least some kind of government. The U.S. should probably have just kept him from Kuwait and we did but we wanted democracy and oil and were just not prepared for what was to come.
Today there is no coalition because no other countries trust us, and I don't blame them. This is not the first time the middle east has shown their blood lust but it is the first time that graphic images and atrocities are recorded and sent out to the world in this way. Cold blooded and with a cause they storm across the region in American tanks and artillery flaunting our failures.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.