Day: April 30, 2014

We Did What We Do Best

Opinion from the desk of the Editor……….

Let’s talk about elections today…..not the US ones but rather those in Iraq…….

But first let’s walk back into recent history…..now think back to when the USSR was in Afghanistan……..the Us poured cash and arms into the country to help fight creeping communism…..we sent a lot and eventually the Soviets tucked tail and ran for the northern border and home.  We Won!  Then what did we do?  we turned our backs on the country and took our cash and stuff and went home. ….no longer any need to worry about Soviet expansionism.  The whole Afghan thing became our bragging point of how we stopped the Soviet machine.

But then with our backs turned….what happened?  We ignored the rise of the Taleban and AQ……..and after about 10 years of ignoring a problem it came back to bite us in the ass (9/11 in case there was any confusion).

I walked you through a little history for good reason……you see Iraq is becoming another one of our long list of failed states……..of course we claim that since they have elections that it is moving toward democracy……..one word for you…..POPPYCOCK!

Iraq is experiencing some of the same symptoms that Afghanistan experienced…….constant violence, mostly ethnic and sectarian, the rise of AQ (in this case ISIS) and a country being divided along ethnic and religious lines.

Today is election day in Iraq and as normal things are not looking too bright……..

A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway today amid a massive security operation as the country continues to slide deeper into sectarian violence, more than two years after US forces left. Hundreds of thousands of troops and police have fanned out to guard voting centers for the first nationwide balloting since the 2011 American pullout. In central Baghdad, police and soldiers manned checkpoints every few hundred yards, while pickup trucks with machine guns perched on top roamed the streets. Much of the city looked deserted and most stores were closed.

Authorities also closed Iraq’s airspace for the elections, and slapped a ban on vehicles to reduce the threat of car bombings. A Shiite party led by Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister of eight years, is expected to win the most seats but is unlikely to win a majority, meaning he will have to cobble together a coalition if he is to keep his job—a tough task given the harsh criticism he has been under from his one-time Shiite, Sunni Arab, and Kurdish allies. The death toll in Iraq has climbed to its highest levels since the worst of the sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007 and the violence shows no signs of ceasing for the election: Back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market northeast of Baghdad yesterday, the deadliest in separate attacks that officials said killed 24 people.

Whatever happens to Iraq or in Iraq is on the head of the US……we have done what we do best……….act stupidly!

 

Sunnis feel victimised as Iraq goes to polls – Yahoo News

I know…Iraq?  Outta sight outta mind….a typical American response to the world they create…….and when sh*t happens then they all have an opinion……

With today’s Iraqi election nothing will change…….the violence that we brought onto the land will go on and on……….Kurds are waiting to break away…….Sunnis are being crapped on by the government…….and Shi’as keep moving more and more into the Iranian camp…..so what will this election really bring?

The Sunnis are the key to Iraq….

 

Sunnis feel victimised as Iraq goes to polls – Yahoo News.

Damn! The Hate!

Opinion from the desk of the Editor

It is nothing new…..religious bigotry, that is…….it has been around a long time….but in the last decade it has gotten out of control.  This post will most likely not be high on the must read list for the radical Right.

My problem is blaming Muslims for the acts of some….granted those acts are horrible and not worthy of comment….but to blame ALL Muslims for their actions is like blaming all Christians for the acts of Westboro Baptist church…..only a scream moron or a rabid racist would do such a thing.

I have read a few of the accounts by Christians that have lived through some dastardly things…….they recount the actions in vivid detail.  I do not doubt that the stuff occurred….but the acts described are NOT SOP for Muslims.

There are about 1.2 billion Muslims in the world…….most have never fired a weapon or committed an act of terrorism or burnt a flag or effigy……..again would you blame ALL Christians for the act of the moronic few?

Not all Muslims believe the way the extremists do……those are salafists or wahhabis…in other words the extreme fundamentalists…..you know….kinda like the fundamentalist within the Christian belief………believers that are rabid……..no difference.

For those that are not regular visitors……in my younger days I worked in North Africa and the Middle East…..so I was exposed to Muslims every day and I found them nothing like the portraits painted by some…….they were very friendly,  generous to a fault, even to strangers, strong sense of humor, strong family values and very devout in their religion.  I still keep in touch with friends from the past and not one of them carries an AK or committed an act of terrorism and couple of them would have good reason to resort to violence but have not……that says a lot for their character in my opinion.

To label all Muslims for the acts of a few is a huge disservice, especially if all one is going by is the words of others………STOP judging others based on misinformation and stupidity………