The big news of the week is that the battle for Mosul has finally begun….after months of moving equipment and men around all the prep work has come to the “final” battle…..
If you have been living under a rock and not aware of the situation in Iraq…then I can be of assistance…..
Source: War Against Islamic State in Iraq
I felt it necessary for my readers to be notified of the start of thew battle for I had no confidence that it would be a priority for the MSM……
The war in Iraq has not been in the headlines later even though about a 100 people a day die….the media rather play on an endless loop the gossip coming out of both sides of the election̷…
Source: Iraq: And So It Begins – In Saner Thought
Even if the battle is won and ISIS takes it on the lame….will this be the end of the problems in Iraq?
The Unesco constitution says: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.”
The only thing people seem to agree about the current battle for Mosul is that Isis will be defeated militarily and the city retaken. Militarily, Isis is losing. But progress on giving Sunnis in Mosul reasons to believe in their future and to support the country’s Shia-dominated government remains elusive. And this is the key battleground: without victory here, we will be locked into a cycle of violence without end.
Any defeat of ISIS is a welcome story….but in Iraq’s case the possibility of it sinking into further violence is possible…..we have the Iraqi military, the shi’a militias and the Pesh Merga fighting to liberate Mosul….but why?
Each one of them has an agenda…..and not one of them is fighting for the nation of Iraq…..
Iraq could sink into the divisions that have all players in Syria at each others throats…..none have any idea what is at stake beyond their own petty dreams of power….Iraq is looking as a similar problem for the world to sort out.
I say the world because…..well they created the problem….they need to man up and handle it.
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
Aye, the world, indeed. All of it: ISIS, all the conflict in the Middle East, the far East, and all over the world, is a symptom of our sick world culture, so any long-term solutions we may find will have to take that into account….
But, given our history, not going to happen, until it ALL falls apart…
gigoid, the dubious