Showing posts with label Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Show all posts
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Op-ed:
ISIS...a creation of
Obama's doing
By: Diane Sori
“But I want to see a strategy."
- New House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaking about Obama's Iraq strategy
Saying that nobody in Washington wants to send U.S. troops into Iraq right now, new House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy stressed that a military option does need to be kept on the table, but as I see it the main problem with Iraq right now is that Obama and his administration lack NOT only a clear plan on exactly what to do but any plan at all.
Sending in 300 military advisers who like before will have their hands tied behind their back in regards to anything but trying to win the 'hearts and minds' of the enemy is absolutely NO response...is absolutely NO plan...to help stop the forward moving incursion of ISIS...especially in light of the fact that over the past 48 hours the ISIS flag now flies over yet another four Iraqi towns as they move southeast towards Baghdad itself.
ISIS...believed to currently have about 10,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria...with their numbers growing daily...is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a known terrorist freed by Obama in 2009, who upon his release vowed to "see you in New York," and I guarantee you it was NOT to go sightseeing. And while NOT the head of ISIS at the time of his release, Obama still willingly chose to free a man...a terrorist...who had a $10 million reward already placed on him by the FBI for information leading to his capture or death.
So as al-Baghdadi and his ISIS forces will most likely soon take the
entirety of the mostly Sunni Anbar province, they now control...as much
needed bases for redeployment...Al-Qaim (situated on the Syrian
border), Rawa, Anah, and Husaybah (62 miles from Baghdad). And with the
Iraqi army abandoning the area's command center, their bases, and their
weapons, there is NOTHING in ISIS' way to stop them from reaching their
goal of creating a totally sharia compliant state. And with these four
towns situated alongside a main highway from Syria to Baghdad...a highway soon to
be littered with the headless corpses of any who oppose them...it now
becomes easy for them to sweep in from the west and lay siege on Baghdad
itself.
And add into this mix that ISIS has already taken over the town of Rutba, located on the main road between Baghdad and Jordan...a mere 90 miles from Jordan's border. Remember too that ISIS has vowed to kill King Abdullah II and topple the Jordanian monarch because of his close economic ties and friendship with Israel, and by taking Rutba they can easily send cells into Jordan to try and do just that.
But NO worries for all is well because Obama has sent in 300 military advisers to shore up the problem...but it's more like 300 military advisers who will soon be without their heads.
And the problems in Iraq go even deeper than just the ISIS incursion
for everyone forgets the third party in the mix...the Kurds to the
north. The Kurds who Shi'ite Saddam Hussein gassed and who Shi'ite al-Maliki pays little mind to now have security forces in Iraq...at a
checkpoint about 12 miles from Kirkuk...a city the Kurds now control
after the Iraqi Army fled...a city rich in oil and oil revenues.
Remember, what the Kurds want more than anything is their own state free of Iraq and anyone else trying to hold dominion over them. And if they can defend their borders while NOT getting dragged too deeply into Iraq's Sunni vs. Shi'ite battle, the Kurds could be the biggest winners in this whole assorted mess, seeing their dream of uniting the Kurdish minorities from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran into one Kurdish state becoming a reality. But that can only happen if they play their cards right...and only if they can bring the oil rich city of Kirkuk under permanent Kurdish control after the Iraqi crisis has abated one way or the other.
And know that the Iraq crisis will indeed abate after time even as the
death toll continues to rise, for it's in the natural scope of things that all
things...even war...eventually come to an end. Iraq will either fall
completely into the hands of the ISIS insurgents or Iraq will push back
with or without U.S. help. And while it has become apparent that the
Iraqis most likely cannot do it alone NO matter how many times Obama
spews that this is an Iraqi internal political issue...that this is all
al-Maliki's fault because he has ignored Sunni concerns and governed solely
in the interests of the Shi'ite majority...the advances by ISIS have
actually now merged the wars in Syria and Iraq into one hellish battle.
And these battles are indeed joined together as one for the simple fact is that when ISIS took control of certain northwestern Iraqi towns that it made it possible for ISIS to continue to fight Syrian troops while at the same time being able to safely retreat to Iraq 'rear areas' to regroup, and that when fighting Iraqis they could go to Syria to do the same thing. And Obama cannot continue to ignore this fact for if he does the entire Middle East will go up in flames. And might I add flames of his own doing for it's his Middle East policies...or lack thereof...that have caused this problem in the first place.
Always remember, by Obama's announcing the date of our Iraqi pullout ISIS was given the time to turn itself from the then floundering 'al-Qaeda in Iraq' into the well-financed, well-organized, and highly effective fighting force that it is now, and that they were able to do so on their time table NOT on Obama's...as they now were given the chance to lay low and regroup until they saw just the right time and opportunity to move in...which of course they did.
So as Obama keeps insisting that there is NO military solution alone
to the Iraq crisis...as he continues to say that he has NOT demanded
al-Maliki's resignation but that he wants some form of government of
national unity (like the Iraqis care what he wants)...as he had Joe
'foot-in-mouth' Biden speak to al-Maliki as well as to his Sunni rival
parliamentary speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, and to Masoud Barzani, the
president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, about unity against ISIS and
the need to form an inclusive government (guess he wants ISIS in that
government)...as John 'Swiftboat' Kerry is soon to arrive in Iraq to screw things
up even more...Israel remains on alert for what happens in Iraq could be
the lynch-pin to unleash full-fledged war against them.
And I can
assure you Obama and his cronies will NOT like the outcome of that war
one little bit...and that my friends is the only bit of happiness in this whole
assorted mess.
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
Op-ed:
And so it seems it was all
for naught
By: Diane Sori
"Baghdad is going to be overrun. The Green Zone is going down." – U.S. intelligence official
As Iraq is on the verge of total collapse, the U.S. stock market is tanking, and oil prices are surging due to the ongoing violence throughout the entire Middle East. And Barack HUSSEIN Obama is doing NOTHING...doing NOTHING in regards to Iraq even after the Iraqi government has asked...has begged...for help. And his lack of action...except to say "we can't and won't do it for them" and that Iraq needs to settle its own political differences...political difference he has contributed directly to...will most assuredly result in the birth of a highly dangerous islamic caliphate that will NOT only be the foreboding of a jihadist takeover of Iraq and its surrounding Arab nations, but will be one which will pose a direct threat to America and all western nations as well.
Claiming he was caught off guard...LIAR...by the strength,
fortitude, and determination of the extremist group the 'Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria'...an extremely brutal al-Qaida affiliate known by its
acronym ISIS and one that's under the command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the terrorist released by Obama from Camp Bucca in 2009 and who still has a $10 million reward by the FBI on his head (notice a pattern here)...the
major Iraqi cities of Mosul (which is less than one hundred miles from Syria and one that's strategically vital for funding al-Qaeda in Iraq) and Tikrit have fallen to the terrorists, all while
Obama says he won't send in troops but might consider possible air
strikes to help the flailing Iraqi government. Yet to date NOTHING has been done...NOTHING at all...as the growing in numbers Sunni militants are advancing south towards Baghdad by the hour...as they travel on a road riddled with headless bodies of their doing. And now these newly embolden terrorists are said to be planning to bring jihad NOT only to Iraq but to Jordan, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai, and to Lebanon as well.
And what are the U.S. trained Iraqi government forces doing...they're turning and running away in surrender. But it's NOT that they want to surrender, it's that Obama’s having given out the U.S. withdrawal date for all to hear made their standing and fighting a mute point for once we leave they know they do NOT stand a chance against this well-armed, well-financed jihadi army of sorts.
And to make this situation even worse than just for those Iraqis trying to fight back is the fact that Barack HUSSEIN Obama...the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces...has now made each and every America death...has made every drop of American blood shed...has made every crippling wound our troops sustained...has made it all for naught as the people and the cities they gave their lives and limbs to free have now been handed back to the very terrorist groups we fought so hard to free this country from.

More American blood on his hands as the bottom line is this...Iraq's
most likely soon to be fall is directly the fault of both Barack
HUSSIEN Obama and his administration who have NO...I repeat NO...idea
whatsoever how both reckless and dangerous its 'supposed' foreign policy
is as their foreign policy is actually NO policy in support of America
or its interests at all. NO foreign policy at all for how does one free
and secure a country and then turn its back and abandon it with NO plan
in place to keep the hard fought for peace intact.
Simply stated...one does NOT but our beloved America under this man's watch... under this traitor's watch...NOT only turns her back on our allies and friends but on we Americans as well.
Yet 'We the People' did see this coming...the generals saw this coming...while Obama and crew deliberately chose to look away and ignore the warnings sounded by those of the ground. And as both political and secular violence sadly became part of the Iraqi people's daily life over this past year...Obama did little to NOTHING to train Iraqi's army to stand strong against those wanting to undo all we had done.
And again he did little because America's enemies...because our allies enemies... are indeed his friends...are the ones to whom his true allegiances lie.
And thanks to Obama's actions...or should I say lack thereof...the die for a total Middle East implosion has been cast as Iran...Iraq's old enemy...as the very one who wants Israel wiped off the map...are coming to the aid of its long held thorn in its side. Now sending 150 of its infamous, highly trained, elite Revolutionary Guards (with promises to send more as the need arises) to aid the Iraqi government in its fight against the ISIS militants, the very incursion of Iran into the battle lights a fuse to disaster that NO one might be able to extinguish.
And as strategic alliances in the region are forced to change now
that Iran has inserted themselves into the mix, what's left of the Iraqi
army's command has turned over the defense of the all-important oil
city of Kirkuk (often called the 'Kurdish Jerusalem') to Kurdish forces,
who are deploying for yet another attack by the jihadists. And while
the Kurds to the north gather for all-out war, Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki issued an all-inclusive call-up in Baghdad for its
citizens (30,000 have signed up so far) to help in defending the city
against the advance of ISIS and other al-Qaeda forces that are
poised to overrun and take over the city...forces that are now less than 25
miles away from the city's outskirts.
And Iraq falling will affect both the Middle East and the global stage as well. First, with Iraq being a huge oil exporter, damage to its production network will most assuredly have a negative effect on the world economy as oil prices will indeed rise and rise to its highest prices ever. Second, Jordan, a country already overrun with about a million refugees from the civil war in Syria, is concerned...and rightly so... about a possible influx of Iraqi Shiites and then following them with attacks by Sunni jihadistss crossing the Iraqi border. Third, with Mosul being just an hour's drive from the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, Turkey's government is rife with fears that the involvement of Peshmerga (Kurdish) troops into the Iraqi conflict would embolden the Kurds to further their secessionist ambitions into disputed areas that both the Kurds and Turkey claim.
But lastly and most importantly is the Israel vs. Iran vs the U.S. scenario. We all know that Obama wants the al-Assad government gone, and to that affect he has been (ILLEGALLY as in Benghazi) transferring guns and weapons to the 'supposed' moderate Sunni (al-Qaeda supported) rebels for quite some time. But with the newest developments in Iraq, including the surprising development of Iran's siding with al-Maliki's government, a mutual interest has arisen for the U.S. and Iran as the last thing either country wants is a Sunni theocracy, gleamed from the playbook of Osama bin Laden, sitting on Iran's western border. But Iran is the chief enemy of Israel and with Obama constantly stabbing Israel in the back, what happens to Israel if Obama outwardly switches sides concerning all things Israel. Israel will NOT take kindly to that and this might just force Israel to do what it should have done years ago...and there's NO need to tell you what that is.
So as the now probable fall of Iraq brings back memories of the ghosts
of Viet Nam...a war that should have been an American victory but one
that turned into a hasty retreat NOT because of our brave troops
fighting but because of the leaders behind the troops...weak
leaders...leaders who put the enemies sensibilities before our
own...leaders who did NOT know how to fight to win but only to sustain
what they thought of as victory that sadly was anything but...I leave
you with the words of Barack HUSSEIN Obama...delusional words by a
delusional and evil man who now has the ghosts of America's dead resting squarely
on his shoulders where they rightfully belong.
"The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed then it's ever been. It is more educated than it's ever been."
And anyone who believes that is as delusional as he is...and the Iraqi people know that better than most as they have become the very delusion of which he speaks.
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