Inkwell Institute

Middle East Desk

Since the opening days of 2003 there has been a major desire to control Iraqi oil….we even started a war to gain access to it……I know…I know……the war was never for oil….that ay be true but it was about the oil.  All that is old hat, right?

Since we started invading then occupying the country…the only thing that has remained constant has been the violence, the deaths and the destruction.  Even after we pulled out of Iraq the violence has continued without end.  democracy, as it is called, has NOT solved the problems of the country.  Now the real consequences of our invasion is becoming evident……the destruction of the nation of Iraq.

First, it was the Kurd looked to the invasion as a way to get a homeland of their own…..and then the riff between sunni/shi’a added to the violence and the deaths….that has never changed….even today they are killing each other over some riff in the religion from 1000 years ago.

In a land where AQ had no solid foothold….the elimination of Saddam gave them a chance for that foothold and they took it.  It has taken a couple of years but the destruction of Iraq has begun in earnest……

In walks ISIS….the Jihadist Islamic State Of Iraq and Syria…..in the last couple of months ISIS has gained control of Ramadi and Fallujah and just the other day they took control of Mosul and now they have taken another city….the home of Saddam, Tikrit….

Stability is deteriorating quickly in Iraq, where officials are confirming that Islamist militants have seized control of a second city, Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. Officials tell the AP that the provincial governor based in Tikrit is missing, while the New York Times notes that militants encountered precious little resistance and appear to be on their way to Baghdad. They’ve taken over the town of Baiji, an oil-refining center with 200,000 residents, and they’ve done so “without firing a shot,” the Times notes. The militants hold a power station that supplies Baghdad and beyond, and residents in the capital fear the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) could come their way next.

And with Iraq having lost control of its second-largest city to the Islamist militants, some 500,000 Mosul residents have fled, a watchdog says. “The situation is chaotic inside the city, and there is nobody to help us,” a government worker tells the BBC. An Iraqi provincial official has indicated that leaders are strategizing to retake Mosul, but troops are showing fatigue. “The state is weak,” a deserting soldier tells the Times. “This will be an endless battle.” The US says it will continue to provide “some security assistance” to Iraq, but the government must “step up to the plate” in a push against ISIS, the Guardian reports. The group, the State Department says, is “not only a threat to the stability of Iraq, but a threat to the entire region.”

The US has issued all kinds of warnings about ISIS….but guess what morons?  We caused this!  We can blame everything on everybody but this situation is one of our own making…….the people of Iraq can thank the US for their misery.

Not only did the US and her allies destroy most of the country but we created an atmosphere where ISIS could operate.  At the rate that the situation in Iraq is accelerating……the country we know as Iraq has 5 maybe 10 years left as entity…….and the West has created this situation and they have NO idea how to reverse the energy that they have unleashed.

Then a report comes out of the region that the US has been caught off guard by the deteriorating conditions in Iraq….pause here for “I told you so moment”……….this says it all for America’s foreign policy…….how pathetic is this?