Inkwell Institute

Middle East Desk

First of all, I am not convinced that the American people fully realize what the country has gotten itself into……this will be a multi-year operation…..an operation that needs a name….why not call it “Operation We Are Making This Shit Up As We Go”?

Second, I am nit convinced that the airstrikes will do any good other than making the M-IC orgasmic because the ordinances will need replenishing.

What of the airstrikes?

Six weeks of ever-intensifying US airstrikes have had Obama Administration officials hyping the “progress” in their new war in Iraq. The situation on the ground, however, doesn’t bare that out.

Far from progress, the situation on the ground appears virtually unchanged in six weeks, with only a handful of frontline towns changing hands and ISIS controlling the same massive chunk of Iraq it did when the US started launching attacks.

The US has been giving airstrikes to Iraq for 23 years and what, if anything, has changed?  Good question, right?  If anything the area has become more and more volatile with each American mission.

Since the most recent airstrikes began….ISIS has overrun numerous villages and even more Iraqi failure as they overrun a base camp…..

ISIS fighters attacked a surrounded military camp in Saqlawiya, near the city of Fallujah, quickly routing them and killing 40 soldiers. Another 70 soldiers who fled the camp during the attack were said to be captured.

Suicide bombers approached the site in an armored personnel carrier, blowing it up and starting the onslaught. The area around the case had been mostly cut off, preventing the escape of the scattering troops. The troops are said to have mistaken the truck for one of their own, allowing it into the base.

As the war continues there is NO evidence of a “success” that Kerry and the admin are pushing on the public.

Then there is the thought out there that sending in troops, any troops, not necessarily American, will do little to solve the ISIS problem……if anything I could strengthen their resolve and provide them a massive recruitment coup.

And then there is the all popular….”train the moderate rebels” for a sustained program against ISIS. and Assad.

I am not convinced that we or anyone can actually find these ‘moderate’ rebels and training and arming them may only help ISIS in the long run.

I am not convinced that we are at all capable of defining who is a “moderate rebel”.

I am not convinced that even if we were fortunate enough to locate these ‘moderates’ that they would be capable of fighting both ISIS and Assad or that they would even want to do such a thing.

In closing, I am not convinced that this war was a good idea and I am sure that it was pout together without much thought of the consequences.

In closing I would like to reiterate…….I am not convinced that the American people are aware of what they have gotten themselves into…..it will be much harder to extract ourselves the further into the mission we go.  The case for war was made in steps just like 1991 and 2003…..those were lies, for the most part….what about today’s?

I am not convinced that we, the American people, have been given accurate information….only the items that would garner popular support.

I am just not convinced that all this was truly necessary.

Are you?