Video: Time To Kick Ass Up North

December 6th, 2007 Posted By Pat Dollard.

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  1. Grumpy

    WTF WTF WTF!!!

    I thought that Iraq’s Northern region was one of the only stable areas of Iraq? I thought that the Kurdish (while they had some problems, see PKK and Turkey) region was doing pretty good. Now the media–yes fox new too–want to spin some little thing to make it look that we are playing whack-a-mole and we should just give up and go home because it is futile?

    To hell with the MSM; faux news too.

    I call bull-shit on this report. Anita says that all provinces must become peaceful before you can claim that a corner has turned in Iraq?

    Oh yeah, watch this: Me: Iraq has turned a corner. There I said it, what are you going to do about it, Anita?

    December 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
  2. fmder

    Easy Grumpy, dont blow a gasket because of one cunt licking reporter.

    Must not be too bad where she is at, not wearing any sort of body armor or protection.

    December 6th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
  3. ticticboom

    The Kurdish heartlands are fairly secure, except for the Turkish problem.

    The cities further south are more mixed, and there’s infiltration from Syria and Iran. Especially Syria. The rat lines run along the rivers.

    While AQI never had the presence they had in Anbar or Baghdad, they kept up a relatively low level insurgency punctuated with occasional spectacular, high-casualty suicide bombings. Now that they’ve, for the most part, been kicked out of the Sunni areas, and never had a major foothold in the Shiite areas, they’re falling back.

    I suspect that soon, most of AQI will be based in Syria, and in a much lesser extent, Saudi Arabia. Expect cross-border raids, more like the suicide bombing of the wedding in Jordan. Capable of inflicting casualties, but not of taking over a country and imposing sharia law.

    Once that happens, we’ll probably be bombing Syria on a regular basis until they decide to throw Al Quaeda Formerly In Iraq under the bus. I doubt it’ll take long. The Syrian Regime cares more about holding onto power that Pan-Islamic Solidarity. Anyone who thinks that chinless dentist actually calls the shots doubtless also thinks Da Munchkin King rules in Tehran.

    National Socialists rule in Damascus. Islamic fundamentalists rule in Tehran. At least the Baathists have learned one lesson from their ideological forbears: do not go to war with America, at least openly.

    Of course, this all depends on a President who won’t throw the Iraqis to the wolves.

    The Vietnam War basically ended in victory in 1972/73. Until Watergate, when the Congressional Democrats cut off all aid to Saigon. Hanoi immediately invaded and overran the demoralized South.

    History has a habit of repeating itself. I’m hoping for a post-WWII Germany/Japan end game. Failing that, a Korea-style stalemate, where we would hold on to Kurdistan, and maybe Anbar, while Iran has a proxy-state in the Shi’a areas. Worse would be Iraq’s neighbors dividing the country. Hopefull, they’d fall into fighting each other, which at least would distract them from fighting us, and maybe once they’d been bloodied, peace, real peace, wouldn’t seem so distasteful.

    The absolute worst case scenario is a revitalized Al Qaeda gaining a base of operations, possibly overrunning the Arabian Penisuala. The don’t just have fifth columns there, they sixth and seventh. A resurrected Caliphate with control over much of the worlds oil supply…

    Fuck, now I’m depressed. But that’s highly unlikely. Of course, down that road lies the obliteration of live in the heart of the Islamic Empire, because they’d have to start a nuclear war with us.

    Their nature demands it. It’s like the old fable about the scorpion and the fox. They’d lose, as in total eradication of their population centers, and they’d know it, but they wouldn’t be able to help themselves. I’m not sure you can ‘win’ a nuclear war, but you can lose the least. America would still be here. Arabia would be sheet of glass.

    But a thin sheet of glass, easily drilled through…not that cities are built on top of oil fields.

    December 7th, 2007 at 1:19 am
  4. Brian H

    Tic;
    For a projection of the consequences of a nuke attack on Israel, check out this Pipes link. Israel survives; Iran, Syria, and Egypt do not. China and India go in the economic dumper. Etc.

    December 7th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

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