A heartbreaking message from Iraq
I wrote “heartbreaking” in the title of this post. But I could just as easily have written “enraging.” This interview with Canon Andrew White, which I watched on “The Kelly File” last night, is both:
What Canon White says about the Iraqi army explains a lot. An awful lot. Armies are very dependent on technology/weaponry, but not on that alone. The courage to fight and the will to fight is necessary, too. If an army isn’t willing to fight—and to die—to reach its goal or to protect others, all the equipment in the world will not help it.
The Iraqi army is scared, demoralized, and isolated. So are the Christians of Iraq.
Heartbreaking indeed. His government (and the Church of England) should get him out of there.
That interview could become iconic and will if that’s his last.
No fear? My God, what faith! Or is it resignation?
Cue the Mariachi ba… uhmmm… NATO… Uhhh… the United States, i.e., the Idiocracy.
Neo,
I recommend the youtube video of this panel on ISIS, Iraq, and Syria at Columbia University on Sept 12, linked here:
http://www.siwps.org/watch-video-of-siwps-panel-discussion-isis-in-iraq-syria-and-the-us/
Event description:
http://www.siwps.org/event/isis-in-iraq-syria-and-the-us/
Prof Austin Long, who worked as an advisor in Iraq, addresses the issue of the Iraqi Army’s collapse and says the weaknesses were known when we left Iraq.
It’s similar to why the NOPD went AWOL during Katrina. Except they didn’t have the excuse of not being a democracy for more than a few years.
But, worry not: Obama is sending 3,000 troops to….where?….Liberia.
My God.
They’ll be back before you know it.
So, the Iraqi army is not going to be a factor in the defeat of ISIS, which leaves Iran because Obama has no intention whatsoever to defeat ‘ISIL’. That is proven by the US airstrikes NOT targeting ISIS’ tanks and artillery. IMO, it’s doubtful that Iran can defeat ISIS as long as they have those tanks and artillery.
Which means that in a few years we will either have a greatly enlarged nuclear Iran OR a Sunni Caliphate, that will look to procure nukes from Pakistan.
And, if Iran can’t stop ISIS and they take Iraq and Syria, the low hanging fruit of Lebanon and Jordan will be next. Then four conditions eventuate; Israel will be nearly completely surrounded by ISIS. ISIS will look toward the Kuwait and Saudi eastern oil fields. Should they secure them, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 1/3 of the world’s oil passes, will be under the guns of two radical regimes. Nuclear armed regimes. And the price of crude will skyrocket with ‘radical’ Islam having a stranglehold on the West’s economies.
And of course all of this ignores ISIS cells infiltrating into America over our open southern border.
What a coincidence that all the bombing was on empty logistical bases for ISIL. While AQ got hit a bit harder. Coincidence?